Window Backgrounds - A Collection Of Drawings And Descriptions Of Store Window Backgrounds Cowan, George J. Books

25x18 cm. Original red illustrated cloth, well worn, fraying at corners. 256 pp., frontispiece portrait of the author. Four pages in color. First edition. The book illustrates and describes roughly 100 designs for retail storefronts. The last 24 pages contain ads for companies which supplied materials useful in decorating storefronts. Many of the storefront displays suggested in this book involve tie-ins to holidays, but there are also many others which are more generic. Published by The Dry Goods Reporter. OCLC 681773070 lists 9 holdings of this title, but it is not clear how many of those are actual books and how many are internet resources. OCLC 175299601 describes a second edition from 1920 with one holding, at Duke University.