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Pop-guns. : One serious and one funny. : Being the first book of the series

Title
Pop-guns. : One serious and one funny. : Being the first book of the series. / By Aunt Fanny, author of "Nightcaps," "Mittens," "Pet books," "Wife's stratagem," etc. ; "Shoot folly as it flies." ; "I love God and little children."--Richter.
Published
New York: : Sheldon & Co., 335 Broadway., 1864.
Physical Description
157, [11] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Notes
"To parents and guardians. In these little books, I have complied with a request repeatedly expressed to me, to write stories avowedly for the purpose of 'pointing a moral.'"--Preface, p. [9]-10, dated at New York, May, 1864. "This, and all the books of the series, I dedicate to Thomas Lincoln, the son of that loyal, fearless, honest man, the President of the United States."--p. [5].
By Frances Barrow (i.e., "Aunt Fanny").
"C.A. Alvord, stereotyper."--verso of title page.
In green cloth.
Wood-engraved frontispiece plate signed, "Anthony-Davis sc." (i.e. Andrew Varick Stout Anthony and John Parker Davis?).
"Pop gun stories"--series title, spine. "List of Pop-gun series"--p. [2].
Publisher's advertisement, [10] p. at end.
Variant and related titles
Pop gun stories
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Genre/Form
Juvenile literature.
Publishers' advertisements.
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