STARRY FLAG ABC BOOK

New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1899. Very good.. Stunning Gilded Age ABC book with each letter illustrated in a stars-and-stripes motif, and including a Fourth of July story. This English-language alphabet is pictured in bright patriotic color throughout the book with progressive spelling lessons for young readers. A perfectly lovely alphabet book, very scarce. 8.5'' x 10.5''. Original pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with bright chromolithographs. [16] pages. Faint penciled name on left corner of front wrapper. Light soil to wrappers, tiny hole in upper corner of front wrapper, rear wrapper with one small stain. Nearly invisible evidence of spine strengthening.