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Specialty stores

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• Stores, Retail

• Bookstores
• Hardware stores
• Toy stores

• Specialty shops

• The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture From Consumerism to Control (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), by Theodore G. Striphas (zipped PDF with commentary at thelateageofprint.org)

• The Modern Hardware Store (New York: Good Hardware, The Butterick Pub. Co., 1929), ed. by Carl W. Dipman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Hardware Dealers' Magazine (partial serial archives)

• The Wonders of a Toy Shop (New York: J.Q. Preble, n.d.) (page images at LOC)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Book of Shops (London: Grant Richards, n. d.), by E. V. Lucas, illust. by F. D. Bedford (page images at Florida)

• Mark Tidd in Business (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1915), by Clarence Budington Kelland, illust. by W. W. Clarke
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Menace of the Chains (1924), by Millis Advertising Company (page images at LOC)

• Chain Store Age (partial serial archives)

• The Dynamo, by J.C. Penney Co. (partial serial archives)

• 1879-1929: Fifty Years of Woolworth, by F.W. Woolworth Company (page images at LOC)

• For All White-Collar Workers: The Possibilities of Radicalism in New York City's Department Store Unions, 1934-1953 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Daniel J. Opler (PDF at Ohio State)

• For All White-Collar Workers: The Possibilities of Radicalism in New York City's Department Store Unions, 1934-1953 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Daniel J. Opler (PDF at Ohio State)

• Performance of Department Stores: 1933 (Michigan Business Studies v6 #2; 1934), by Edgar H. Gault (page images at HathiTrust)

• Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lise Sanders (PDF at Ohio State)