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Harmarville, PA: Red Raven Corp. [1899]. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall Collectible VG in cloth, t.e.g. 8vo, small vii+90pp Wright III, #3192. .
Billy Baxter's Letters by Kountz, William J. , Jr - 1899
by Kountz, William J. , Jr
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Billy Baxter's Letters
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Harmarville, PA: Duquesne Distributing Co.. Good with no dust jacket; Two inch split to spine, owner name on front . free endpaper, lateral crack to front pastedown.. 1899. Hardcover. Tan decorative cloth with elaborate designs of postal box on front and rear boards signed F. H. . Frontispiece photo of the author and many black and white illustrations, several by Anna Burnham. Title page printed in black with raven vignette in center separately printed in red. vii, 90 pp. Measures 6.5 x 4 inches. Top edges gilt. Printed by Lakeside Press. Preface by George McC. Kountz notes that the author died prematurely at age 31 years and that this volume of collected stories, two of which were never previously published, is meant as a posthumous tribute. A collection of the popular, humorous advertising stories penned by Pennsylvania patent medicine huckster William J. Kountz, Jr. To promote his Red Raven Splits, single dose bottles of sparkling aperient water which was touted to cure hangovers, dyspepsia, and all manner of ills. One ad trumpeted that the beverage clears the head, sweetens the stomach and cools the blood, while another recommended that the salient laxative was for high livers livers. .
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- Book Condition Used - Good with no dust jacket; Two inch split to spine, owner name on front free endpaper, lateral crack to front pastedown.
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- Publisher Duquesne Distributing Co.
- Place of Publication Harmarville, PA
- Date Published 1899
- Keywords Patent Medicines, American Humor
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Billy Baxter's Letters
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Billy Baxter's Letters
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Harmarville, PA: Duquesne Distributing Co [1899]. Very Good-/No Jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Used VG- in cloth . tall 12mo vii[1]90 [1]pp+ Series of 6 sketches in the form of family correspondence, plus a pr eface by George McC. Kountz. Wright III, 3192; locates 7 copies with the Du quesne Distributing Company imprint and only 2 with the variant Red Raven imprint (this copy does have a vignette of a bird in red ink on title page). (light shelfwear to extremities, rear inner hinge starting). .
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Billy Baxter's letters
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harmarville, Pa: duquesne distributing co, 1899. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. viii, 90 p. : ill.; 17 cm. Includes Illustrations.
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Billy Baxter’s Letters
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Red Raven Corporation, Red Raven, PA, 1913; 12mo, 89 pages; First Edition, enlarged; illustrated cloth boards; untrimmed page edges; top edges gilt. A series of riotous tales relating the escapades of bon-vivant Billy Baxter, written in the form of letters addressed to an absent chum, identified only as "Jim." Authored by William J. Kountz, Jr., founder of Red Raven Corporation, manufacturers and bottlers of Billy Baxter carbonated sodas. The stories were first published individually in booklet form as a product promotion between 1888-1889 and made available to the public via post for the price of an envelope and the enclosure of four unused 1¢ postage stamps. (In an ad for the booklets, the author admonishes the public, "Do not lick the stamps and attach them to your letter of request, as at some future date we may need to use same, and the Government foolishly requires a whole stamp.") The booklets achieved such popularity that in less than a year’s time Kountz became a…
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