An exhaustive instructional text aimed at the sales staff on an unnamed American department store's floor coverings department. Rugs and lineloum seem to be the firm's primary offerings with the section on rugs taking up most of the contents with chapters on history, construction, design, composition, region of manufacture, etc... Many pages with vignette drawings and one full-page map (pp. 40) titled "Geographical Origins of Oriental Rugs." 

A pocketed library card and check-out sheet mounted to the interior of the rear wrapper panel bear one name and three date stamps, spanning 1936-1937. Otherwise we find no evidence of a date, place, publisher, nor author in contents. Likewise, we find no holdings nor comparable publications in typical reference. A scarce and otherwise unrecorded, Depression-era work of salesmanship with relation to interior design, retail sales, rugs, linoleum, etc... 

[Salesmanship] : [Mimeography] : [Interior Design]. SELLING FLOOR COVERINGS. [ca. 1936]. [i-iii], 93pp. Approximately 9" x 6." Beige full card wrappers around a three-tack binding. Printed ink title to front: "SELLING / FLOOR COVERINGS." 96 paper leaves with duplicated type print (likey mimeograph) to rectos only. A few pages with prominent splashes of discolor at lower end. Some mild handling wear to overlapping wrapper edges, otherwise sound, clean, and unmarked. About very good.