The Rocket Book

Newell, Peter. THE ROCKET BOOK. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1912], (1912). FIRST EDITION; "Published October, 1912" on title-page verso. 8vo - 8-7/8" x 7-1/4". Blue cloth covered boards with large color pictorial paste-label applied to front cover with minute hints of rubbing at the corners for what is a near perfect copy of the book. Original publisher's pictorial paper DUST WRAPPER with age-tanned front panel and spine, a few small abrasions to back panel, lightly frayed edges, light soiling and a small repaired hole (a rocket hole?) measuring 7/16" x 7/16" to front panel for what is still a very attractive and quite wonderful example of the extremely rare original dust wrapper; back panel with pictorial advertisement for another one of Newell's novelty books, The Slant Book. Plain endpapers. [48] pp. Another one of Newell's novelty books in the same vein as The Hole Book. The story, which is told in verse, with text printed on versos, begins with Fritz, the Janitor's bad kid,