ABC Fun: The Alphabet Party.

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Edité par The Cotsen collection at Princeton has one of these with The Broadway Department Store text on the back. The book appears to be from around . Three sheets of heavy card stapled making 10 interior pages. Cover with Mother seated with the many children in the background and her twins beside her, reading the poems, Alphabet Party text on verso, then two or three of each child's poems and illustrations per page, in green or red panels, plain back; 6.5x8.75" Softcover, No publishing data on this copy. Probably a blank advertising sample, 1910

CONDITION: Good Plus, an easily erased light pencil name, two staples just beginning to rust, outside cover split to first staple, a little split at the top; darkening/even soil to back and margins; inside very fresh and bright with holiday colour. Toploader medium softcover advertizing The Alphabet Party: It was the Holiday Season and Ethel and Charles Bright were about to turn seven. Their mother proposed a toy party. Each little guest should meet her at the toy department of a big store, look over the toys, and make up a poem. The best poet would get the pick of toys. "After they got home, the children, with the help of their elders, made up their rhymes", and took the poems to read at the twins' birthday party. A very jolly red and green party book with great illustrations of 26 turn of the century toys: gramophones, wind-up lobsters, velocipedes, rubber elephants, racing cars. Lively, bright illustrations and poems. Just the thing to encourage Christmas gift lists! ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. . N° de réf. du vendeur 19299

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Titre : ABC Fun: The Alphabet Party.
Éditeur : The Cotsen collection at Princeton has one of these with The Broadway Department Store text on the back. The book appears to be from around . Three sheets of heavy card stapled making 10 interior pages. Cover with Mother seated with the many children in the background and her twins beside her, reading the poems, Alphabet Party text on verso, then two or three of each child's poems and illustrations per page, in green or red panels, plain back; 6.5x8.75" Softcover, No publishing data on this copy. Probably a blank advertising sample
Date d'édition : 1910
Reliure : Couverture souple
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