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The verse by the side of the road : the story of the Burma-Shave signs and jingles / Frank Rowsome, Jr. ; drawings by Carl Rose.
LIBRA - Special HF6161.C65 R67
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rowsome, Frank.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burma-Vita Company.
- Advertising--Cosmetics.
- Advertising.
- Advertising, Outdoor.
- Burma-Vita Company--History.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Eldridge, Don (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 121 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brattleboro, Vermont : Stephen Greene Press, [1965]
- Contents:
- Remember, remember
- On the road to Red Wing
- And oh Louise
- Don't stick / your elbow / out so far
- The way it worked
- Free
- free
- a trip to Mars
- An end to the road signs
- Appendix : Texts of all Burma-Shave signs.
- Notes:
- "Copyright 1965 by Frank Rowsome, Jr."
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has autograph of Don Eldridge.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is "Tenth printing, 1973".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Rowsome, Frank. Verse by the side of the road.
- OCLC:
- 656940
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