KC Baking Powder Grocer's Want Book
Chicago, IL: Jaques Manufacturing Co., [1940-1942]. staplebound, backed with cloth tape. 28 pages, 21 cm x 10 cm. This KC Baking Powder Grocer’s Want Book was published between 1940 and 1942, and was given out complimentary to grocers alongside their purchases of KC Baking Powder to stock their stores. The inside covers have charts on optimizing their profits, while still reselling this product at the advertised 25 cent price KC had touted for over 50 years. The inside of this copy has all blank lined notebook pages inside, with the tips on baking powder sales printed along the top of each page. Written on the outside of this booklet in several places are the words “Kerosene Ration 1942” referring to the kerosene and fuel oil rations of October 1942 to August 1945 during World War II. First four lined pages ripped out, writing all across front and back covers. Ivory printed boards, backed with white cloth tape, good. Item #3052
Price: $15.00