Salesman's Sample Book: Good Times at Home [with] Roosevelt's African Trip [with] Sunday Half Hours with the Children [with] New Boy's and Girl's Speaker [with] Christmas Joys for Little Girls and Boys and Alphabet in Colors -

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Salesman's Sample Book: Good Times at Home [with] Roosevelt's African Trip [with] Sunday Half Hours with the Children [with] New Boy's and Girl's Speaker [with] Christmas Joys for Little Girls and Boys and Alphabet in Colors

Dayton, Ohio: The Thomas Manufacturing Co. (1909).

$100.00

Small quarto. Salesman's sample book displaying the front boards (except for the first title, which displays both boards), spines, and sample of the contents of each of the five volumes on offer. Includes illustrations, photographs, and chromolithographs, as well as advice "To the public and agent", and a loosely laid prospectus for the Roosevelt title. A lovely, bright and fine copy of an unusual "omnibus" salesman's sample.

[BTC #99189]

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