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A B C kindergarten stories and plays for happy hours and holidays.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Zinman 13.5
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Illustrated children's books.
- Dummies (Bookselling)--Specimens.
- Dummies (Bookselling).
- Booksellers and bookselling--Colportage, subscription trade, etc.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Bookbinding--Specimens.
- Bookbinding.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Prospectuses.
- Subscription lists (Publishing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor) (Canvassing Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [Combination canvassing book].
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : American Book and Bible House, [1900]
- Notes:
- Copyright 1900 by George W. Bertron.
- Combination canvassing book consisting of specimen leaves and illustrations for each of the following works, in order: (1) A B C Kindergarten Stories and Plays for Happy Hours and Holidays, (2) Boys and Girls All Over the World, (3) Birds and Animals, or Child's Natural History, (4) Library of Choice Selections of Poetry and Prose, (5) Queen of Republics, Being a Standard History of the United States, (5) Geshichte der Vereinigten Staaten (German translation of "Queen of Republics"); slips of printed materials (on pink paper) directed at canvassers tipped-in before the title page of each work; half broadside prospectus; lined subscription order leaves.
- Binding: unmarked cloth binding with fore-edge flap enclosing, with pictorial board for A B C Kindergarten Stories (no spine sample), printed cloth board for Boys and Girls All Over the World (one cloth spine sample mounted to front pastedown), printed cloth board for Birds and Animals (one cloth spine sample mounted to front pastedown), printed cloth board for Library of Choice Selections of Poetry and Prose (matching cloth spine sample hinged to left edge), printed cloth board for Queen of Republics (one leather spine sample mounted to front pastedown).
- Not in Arbour.
- OCLC:
- 910778165
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