STARRY FLAG ABC BOOK
1899
Stunning Gilded Age ABC book with each letter illustrated in a stars-and-stripes motif, and including a Fourth of July story.
Very good.
Price: $425.00
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Stunning Gilded Age ABC book with each letter illustrated in a stars-and-stripes motif, and including a Fourth of July story.
Very good.
Price: $425.00
This English-language alphabet is pictured in bright patriotic color throughout the book with progressive spelling lessons for young readers. A perfectly lovely alphabet book, very scarce.
New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1899. 8.5'' x 10.5''. Original pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with bright chromolithographs. [16] pages. Faint penciled name on left corner of front wrapper. Light soil to wrappers, tiny hole in upper corner of front wrapper, rear wrapper with one small stain. Nearly invisible evidence of spine strengthening.
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