Country Store Collectibles, by Douglas Congdon-Martin with Bob Biondi. 160 Pages. Softbound. The "General Store" or "Mom and Pop" played an important role in small towns, prairies, and frontiers of America providing items the people could not produce themselves: tools, gadgets, clothing, shoes, food, medicine. This book contains nearly 600 fixtures from American country stores of the 19th and early 20th century. Fully illustrated, it contains not only valuable information on each item sold therein, but a great deal of history on the stores themselves and the people who worked in them as well. Dating from the turn of the 20th century, many of the illustrations provide historical references to actual everyday life. A must for the library of any antique lover, collector or student of history. $24.95 (BK-0229)
