Poor Will's Pocket Almanack, for the Year 1784 Children - Conduct of life the plain cream paper dust

the plain cream paper dust jacket issued with the book was treated as disposable protective wrapping and discarded by the vast majority of original recipients

Sammelbands of this nature offer profound insight into contemporary collecting habits

The back of most issues featured revolutionary artwork by the Black Panther Minister of Culture

Eleventh edition

The back page artwork by Emory Douglas features a Black man armed with a military style rifle aimed directly at a policeman

Poor Will's Pocket Almanack, for the Year 1784 Children - Conduct of life the plain cream paper dust(Almanacs 18th Century) POOR WILL'S POCKET ALMANACK, FOR THE YEAR 1784. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Joseph Crukshank, [1783]. FIRST EDITION. 24mo 4 1 8" x 2 9 16". Original string bound thick paper wrappers with splitting along the hinge, a crease to the lower fore edge corner of rear wrapper and a small loss of paper to the tip of same for what is a nice copy of the almanac. [24] pp., with a thick unprinted guard leaf bound in between each