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I want to say $39.99, but I'm not entirely sure of that number.
by function_seven 3y ago
I want to say $39.99, but I'm not entirely sure of that number.
- smugma 3y agoOff by an order of magnitude, <$3.99 each: “Funk & Wagnalls volumes were typically sold in supermarkets as part of a “book-a-week” program. When Mr. Moser came up with the idea of reducing the normal charge to just pennies for the first volume… The entire 27-volume Funk & Wagnalls set — along with the free two-volume dictionary, another sweetener dreamed up by Mr. Moser — cost a little more than $100.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/obituaries/Stanley-Moser-dead-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/obituaries/Stanley-Moser-...
- function_seven 3y agoSo this is how I find out how profoundly cheap my dad was :). Thanks.
- Turing_Machine 3y agoWell, $3.99 in 1953 (the first year the encyclopedia was offered in supermarkets, ATW) is $45.50 now, according to https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm. For 27 volumes, that works out to $1228.50. Your dad wasn't that cheap. :-)