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The cloth cover shows heavy wear, with fraying at the head of the spine and yellowed pages inside, but all pages are attached, as the photos show.
This book gathers original and selected recitations in verse and prose, with dialogues, drills, tableaux, and songs with music, arranged as programs for children's entertainments in school, church, and home. The title page names Maude M. Jackson as originator and director of entertainments in the public schools of Chicago.
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This 1902 copy has its color plate frontispiece and a pencil signature from a previous owner, and it suits a shelf of early school and home recitation books. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.
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