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(Baldwin The Clothier). - Baldwin's Monthly. Vol. IX, No. VI. : N.E. Corner Canal Street and Broadway, New York, December, 1874.

New York: (Baldwin the Clothier), 1874. 1874. New York: (Baldwin the Clothier), 1874. 1874. Good. - Quarto, 12 inches high by 9-5/8 inches high. Softcover, self-wraps with the banner title above three columns of text. 8 unopened (uncut) pages, each with 3 columns of text printed on both sides of a folded 19 inch high by 24 inch wide sheet of newsprint, with 2 woodcut illustrations including one illustrating Madge Elliot's poem "How They Helped Santa Claus". There is a tear along one of the vertical folds, a few small stains to the cover page, including ink stains, and a couple of tiny tears to the front edges of the pages. Good. A clever advertising periodical for Baldwin the Clothier, a men's clothing store which includes a few articles and columns on the clothing trade interspersed with poems, playful and witty stories and anecdotes. Among the fashion or clothing contents are found short articles such as "Very Naughty Boys" about a young man with a too short overcoat, a line about "Thousands of Business Suits", "The Fat Men's Association", a line about "Imported Fabric", "English Pattern Ulsters", a column listing prices of various suits, etc. Evidently in honor of William Cullen Bryant's 80th birthday, November 8, 1874, his poem "Thanotopsis" is published in this issue. RARE. Good .
USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 129.5 | £UK 112.25 | JP¥ 22302] Book number 100032

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