The Rocket Book

Extended Description and Notes

SUMMARY: "In this consummately illustrated story, the janitor's mischievous son lights a rocket hidden in the basement of a towering building, a skyscraper by the era's standards, and sends it blasting vertically upward. Each page depicts the ruckus the rocket creates as it rips through the twenty-one floors — through a writer's typewriter, through a taxidermist's prized walrus head, through the silverware drawer as a burglar is about to ransack it — until a can of frozen cream extinguishes it at the very top." RARE IN THIS FIRST PRINTING. IMPORTANT SELLER NOTE: Front board paper pastedown in not present.

Bookseller

Mary Riversong Books (US)

Bookseller's Inventory #

745NewellRocket

Title

The Rocket Book

Author

Newell, Peter

Illustrator

Newell, Peter

Format/Binding

Hardcover

Book Condition

Used - Good+

Jacket Condition

No DJ Included

Quantity Available

1

Edition

First Printing Thus.

Publisher

Harper & Brothers

Place of Publication

New York

Date Published

1912

Size

7 1/8 X 8 7/8

Weight

0.00

Keywords

Hole book, Slant book, drilled, novelty, 20th century literature, rare, humor, surprise, rocket, explosion, damage, carelessness, danger, naughty, kids, brats, Americana, antiquarian, Harper and Brothers, Art, Artist, Illustration, Tenement, Apartment, Ur

Bookseller catalogs

For Sale; Children's Books; Science Fiction; Art; Americana; Fantasy; Social Sciences; Anthropology; American History; Dogs; Cartooning; Science and Technology; 20th Century Literature; Children's Illustrated Books; Humor;

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Jacket

Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...

Good+

A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.

Paste-down

The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...

Cloth

"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...

Spine

The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....