<div>Paperback catalog held together wish a dark blue plastic spiral binding. The covers are a gray color with brown discoloration around all edges. The back cover is blank. The front cover has two house illustration on the left, and two house illustrations on the right, with the title on the top and the publisher on the bottom. The house illustrations on the inside are in both black and white and color. Size: 9" x 12"<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>From: https://www.patriotledger.com/story/business/2018/02/07/whatever-happened-to-grossman-s/11038841007/: "</div><div>The company was started by Louis Grossman, a door-to-door salesman who lived on Bunker Hill Street in Quincy.  The business grew, and Grossman's sons joined the business. After World War I, they bought up surplus military buildings − including some from the Hingham Naval Ammunition Deport − dismantled them and sold off everything that could be salvaged.  It was a process that they would repeat after World War II. In 1920, they purchased a site on Granite Street in Quincy which became the site of its retail store.  The company began to focus more of the lumber and building material end of the business, especially with growth of the suburbs which followed World War II.  By the early 1960's, Grossman's  had grown to 35 stores in the six New England states, including several South Shore locations.  In 1969, it was purchased by Evans Products of Oregon.  Evans went bankrupt in 1985, and the Grossman's chain was the only division which emerged from bankruptcy the following year.  The company prospered briefly, but was hit hard by increased competition in the 1990's.  The store on Granite Street in Quincy closed in 1993."</div>