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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.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Rowsome, Frank.
Contributor:
Rose, Carl, 1903-1971.
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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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