wish book

It is sort of a wish book for the world weary.

But winter is a long season, so save those wish books for the really abominable days and instead, go out into the garden.

In those days, the "wish book" was a form of entertainment as well as a way to shop.

Weeks before he died, he wrote his parting advice to me in a Mother's Day wish book.

"The magazine becomes a sort of wish book.

While listed for informational purposes in the Sears "wish books", the car could not be purchased by mail order.

Some come in catalogues, like Neiman Marcus's legendary wish book.

They are the ultimate wish books.

One garden sage called them "wish books."

Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe.

The bright wish books from dozens of nurseries and seed companies are spread out before me, as are the lists I've made.

"Wish books," is the apt description given by Mr. Ermacora.

Mail-order catalogues - also fondly called wish books - rarely fail to turn an armchair gardener's thoughts to spring.

In Canada, Sears continues to distribute their big-book catalogs, including the Wish Book.

The Wish Book program lets people from the community who are suffering from hardships of varying types ask for help from the readers.

The names and hometowns of all 150 state finalists were printed throughout the pages of the 1988 Christmas Wish Book.

Darcy Miller, an editor at the magazine, gave Ms. Wyland a small pink "wish book" containing sparkle-sprinkled pages.

Sears Holdings continues to produce specialty catalogs and reintroduced a smaller version of the Holiday Wish Book in 2007.

Dennis also appeared in the Sears Roebuck Wish Book Christmas catalogue in the 1970s.

For this, the traveler needs an old-time wish book, the fat monthly bus guide for all lines, of which Greyhound, with its subsidiaries, is by far the biggest.

These combinations occur only between the covers of a wish book designed to tempt the winter-weary to look toward spring by making out an order and mailing in a check.

In 1978, retailer Neiman Marcus manufactured and sold an all-chocolate edition of Monopoly through its "Christmas Wish Book" for that year.

The Sears Wish Book is a popular Christmas-gift catalog released by Sears Holdings Corporation, annually in September.

The first Sears Wish Book was printed in 1933, and was a separate big-book catalog from the annual Sears Christmas catalog.

In 1993, Sears discontinued publishing their big-book catalogs in the United States and the Wish Book noticeably started to diminish in size.