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New York: Ballantine Books, 1977. First Ballantine Books Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. Very good/Very good. Norman Rockwell. xiii, (1), 300, (4) pages. Large volume, measuring 8.1/4 inches by 11 inches. This includes translations of Foreign Aphorisms and Notes. This new illustrated Poor Richard's Almanack was published by the Limited Editions Club in 1964 in an edition limited to 1,500 copies. This new volume contains everything in that limited edition, including all of the illustrations by Norman Rockwell. Rockwell's illustrations consist of six full-color oil paintings and some forty line drawings. Contains an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. 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…
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Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758 Paperback - 1977
by Saunders, Richard, Philom (Benjamin Franklin)
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- Title Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758
- Author Saunders, Richard, Philom (Benjamin Franklin)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Paperback
- Publisher Ballantine Books, NY
- Date 1977
- ISBN 0345256875695
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Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758; Wherein are retain'd in their Entirety the Author's Prefaces, Proverbs, Verses, & entertaining Remarks: Together with those Chronological, Historical, and Scientific Observations which the Author has illumin'd with his characteristic Wit & Wisdom
by Saunders, Richard
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