Poor Richard's Alamack
Mount Vernon, New York: Peter Piper Press, c1980.
The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, Minimal shelf handling wear. Illustrated with woodcuts. The dust jacket has light handling wear , no in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. This issue first printed in 1945 - Reprint edition post-1975. 9 inches tall. 80 unnumbered pages.
Poor Richard's Almanack (sometimes Almanac) was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The publication appeared continually from 1732 to 1758. It sold exceptionally well for a pamphlet published in the American colonies; print runs reached 10,000 per year.
Item #17937
ISBN: 0880889187
Price: $24.00
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