CUSTOMERS AND GREEN MEN by Margaret Elizabeth Mackay 1967 1st edition

CUSTOMERS AND GREEN MEN

by Margaret Elizabeth Mackay

DESCRIPTION
Format: small hardcover with dust jacket
Published: Whitcombe and Tombs 1967, 1st edition
Size (mm): 145 w x 220 h x 20 d
Pages: 164
SKU: A5/2606/0365/KXXX

ABOUT
A light, observant memoir of small town shopkeeping, where Mackay recounts the characters, routines, and quiet dramas of running a general store.

She writes with humour and affection about the steady stream of customers—eccentric, loyal, impatient, or simply passing through—and the “green men,” her term for the unpredictable challenges that arrive with equal regularity. The book captures the texture of everyday commercial life: shortages, deliveries, seasonal rushes, and the social role of the shop as a community hub. A warm, anecdotal portrait of retail life in an era when personal connection mattered as much as the goods on the shelves.

Includes monochrome images, map.

CONDITION
Excellent with light wear on dust jacket and page edges, faint marks on end papers, no stamps or inscriptions, pages clean.

IMAGES
Are of the actual item and depict all need to know detail.

REMARKS
Scarce in this condition.