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Extraordinary origins of everyday things / Charles Panati.
LIBRA - Blank Collection AG6 .P37 1987 Blank copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Panati, Charles, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
- Local Subjects:
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
- Genre:
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
- Nonfiction.
- Dictionaries.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (donor)
- Physical Description:
- xi, [3], 463, [3] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Perennial Library, 1987.
- Contents:
- From Superstition
- By custom
- On the calendar
- At the table
- Around the kitchen
- In and around the house
- For the nursery
- In the bathroom
- Atop the vanity
- Through the medicine chest
- Under the Flag
- On the body
- Into the bedroom
- From the magazine rack
- At play
- In the pantry.
- Notes:
- Cover design © Joel Avirom.
- Copy Editor: Marjorie Horvitz. Designer: Erich Hobbing. Indexer: Maro Riofrancos.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-442) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented too the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Panati, Charles, 1943- Extraordinary origins of everyday things.
- ISBN:
- 0060550988
- 9780060550981
- 0060960930
- 9780060960933
- OCLC:
- 15252869
- Online:
- Additional information and access via Open Library
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