Piero Strassburger's Copy of The United States Arithmetician, 1831, with Fraktur Writing orange cow Lincoln seems a pretty good

Lincoln seems a pretty good one to have around

How much better than an action figure though

Also a fabulous pair of cutout paper dolls with drawn faces (and their ghosts on the opposite page)

not just launching Lily Tomlin

I believe for Ashland

Piero Strassburger's Copy of The United States Arithmetician, 1831, with Fraktur Writing orange cow Lincoln seems a pretty goodI try to restrain myself, but I really have very limited capacity to resist early school books that teem with the presence of those who owned them long ago. And even more so when the manifestation of that presence is a full page of heavily inked fraktur writing as here quite a declaration of ownership by Piero Strassburger on the date of February 5, 1835 (and I love seeing the "anno domini" Latin.) The book itself appears to be quite a scarce one too