The Railroad ABC - Tuck's Wide Awake Series

by Raphael Tuck

Very scarce vintage children's book. New York, London, Paris: Raphael Tuck and Sons, 1903.

Paperback is overall in FAIR condition.

• Cover features a locomotive in brilliant color and shows light soiling with a .75" square inch scuff to lower right finish.
• Back cover has some scuffs, dirt, smudges, and creasing.
• Scalloped book edges are gently scuffed, moreso to head and foot.
• Two signatures at top of page one / cover verso.
• Light to moderate foxing and smudges throughout.
• Three pages detached but included.
• First page taped to cover with two clear strips.
• No writing or other intentional marks.
• Book may exhibit additional minor signs of age or wear.
• JS20160319 / CR2019041119

Unpaginated. 7.5" by 14".

Wonderful children's ABC book with many illustrations, both in B&W and brilliant color. Each letter is accompanied by an illustration and a rhyme from: A's the Atlantic Express, speeding to the coast, Bringing thither many friends to their eager host to Z stands for zeal which Father Tuck is eager to impart unto his many little friends, each kind and gentle heart.

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