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Peep show : a medley of pretty pictures and stories

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    Pretty Picture Drawing Book

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    One drawing book/manufacturer's advertisement entitled Pretty Picture Drawing Book, published by M. F. Tobin, Publishers, New York, ca. 1910. This is a promotional advertisement for Besse, Bryant & Co., Clothiers, Hatters, Furnishers of Worcester, Massachusetts. The book is comprised of 6 leaves of lithograph illustrations, which are various images of children playing outdoors and with toys. There are leaves of tracing paper bound in between each image; some of the images have been traced onto the tracing paper. The front cover is a chromolithograph image of a young boy in a blue suit, holding a pug dog in his lap. The insides of the front and back covers, as well as the back cover, are textual advertisements for Besse, Bryant & Co. "M.F. Tobin, Publisher, N.Y." is printed at the bottom of the front cover. "$5-" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper left-hand corner of the inside of the front cover.

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    The English Struwwelpeter, or, Pretty stories and funny pictures

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    Classic tales in verse about naughty boys and girls and the fates that befall them when they misbehave

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    Amis, Kingsley. "A Peep Round the Twist:" short story: later draft, MS. (typewritten: 13 p.)

    Manuscripts

    The bulk of the collection consists of drafts of novels, short stories, poems, essays and television and radio scripts by Kingsley Amis, many heavily corrected. Also included are individual manuscript pieces by Martin Louis Amis, Sir John Betjeman, Elizabeth Jane Howard, and George Melly, and groups of limericks by Robert Conquest. Letters deal with personal and literary matters, including Amis' reactions to the work of other authors and their reactions to his writings.

    AMS 94.

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    [Collection of short story miniatures]

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    A collection of 15 miniature volumes of short stories for children by Thornton W. Burgess. The volumes are in printed paper covers, with color ilustratated titles on front. Several have additional color illustrations. The rear covers have an advertisement for Packard Pianos on with a small blank space at bottom. The majority of the volumes have a sticker for Pickard's Piano Parlor, Marshalltown, Iowa in the blank. Many are illustrated by Harrison Cady. The six volumes published in 1914 are copyrighted by J.N. Cole Jr. and the Winthrop Press, New York. The remainder are copyrighted by John H. Eggers, New York.

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    Sunny days : a volume of original pictures, stories, and verses

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    Stories and verses for boys and girls.

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    Amis, Kingsley. "A Peep Round the Twist:" short story: first draft, MS. (typewritten: 9 p.), with author's autograph and typewritten corrections

    Manuscripts

    The bulk of the collection consists of drafts of novels, short stories, poems, essays and television and radio scripts by Kingsley Amis, many heavily corrected. Also included are individual manuscript pieces by Martin Louis Amis, Sir John Betjeman, Elizabeth Jane Howard, and George Melly, and groups of limericks by Robert Conquest. Letters deal with personal and literary matters, including Amis' reactions to the work of other authors and their reactions to his writings.

    AMS 93.