What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper? : 195 Curious Questions & Intriguing Answers

Thompson, Andrew

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ISBN 10: 088486507X ISBN 13: 9780884865070

Published by Bristol Park Books, New York City, New York, 2012

Language: English

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Stated: First published in the U.K. in 2006 as "Why Do Kamikaze Pilots Wear Helmets?" This First American Edition was published by Bristol Park Books in 2012 with no other printings noted. Hard cover in fine condition with cream boards, black spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight with no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; not price clipped - there is no price present. *' From the front jacket flap, "Baffling and bizarre. Entertaining and Enlightening. This witty and compulsive collection of trivia will captivate and surprise." Among some of the other questions posed and answered: Why do snooze alarms go off every nine minutes? Can it be too cold to snow? What Causes Jet Lag and How Can It Be Prevented and Cured? Why Were Neckties Invented? And, the answer to the question in the title (which takes just under two pages of the total 262 numbered pages,) "What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?

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What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper? : 195 Curious Questions & Intriguing Answers

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Bristol Park Books, New York City, New York

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2012

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English

ISBN 10

088486507X

ISBN 13

9780884865070

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Hardcover

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First American Edition

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1st Printing

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Fine

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Fine

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