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Picturesque sketches of American progress : comprising official descriptions of great American cities ... / by J.H. Beale, M.A.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Zinman 93
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Beale, Joseph Henry, 1861-1943.
Contributor:
Empire Co-Operative Association, publisher.
Canvassing and Sample Book Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
American Subscription Publishing Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Booksellers and bookselling.
United States--Description and travel.
United States.
Canada--Description and travel.
Canada.
Dummies (Bookselling)--Specimens.
Dummies (Bookselling).
Booksellers and bookselling--Colportage, subscription etc.
Bookbinding--Specimens.
Bookbinding.
Genre:
Specimens.
Prospectuses.
Subscription lists (Publishing)
Penn Provenance:
Zinman, Michael (donor) (Canvassing Collection copy)
Physical Description:
1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:
[Canvassing book].
Place of Publication:
New York : The Empire Co-Operative Association, [1889]
Notes:
Canvassing book consisting of specimen leaves and illustrations; slips of printed materials (on yellow paper) directed at canvassers tipped-in within the main body; half broadside prospectus; lined subscription order leaves.
Binding: cloth binding.
"This work is published exclusively for those subscribing to membership in this Association and will not be furnished to book stores and cannot be purchased of book agents" on verso of title page.
Copyright 1889 by the Empire Co-Operative Association.
Cited in:
Arbour, K. Canvassing books, 92, 93
OCLC:
912025563

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