HOW GEORGE WASHINGTON GOT HIS GUNPOWDER.
Based on an article by Harvey Arman appearing in The American Legion Magazine. Foreword by Charles V. Morris. Pp. 48(last blank), the title page vignette, text illustrations and decorations printed in brown; f'cap. 8vo; light brown papered boards, lettered and decorated in gilt; tissue paper wrapper, dated by hand in red ink on backstrip; privately printed, New York, 1980. Benjamin Franklin Keepsakes series, 27. *'Tells of the devious hand Benjamin Franklin played in the gunpowder game that would in 1775 help George Washington's Continental Army succeed in its siege of Boston' [Foreword, p. v]. Published in connection with The Celebration of Printing Week in New York, l980, commemorating the 274th birthday of Benjamin Franklin. The illustrations are by John DePol, who was the art director and illustrator of the entire Franklin Keepsake series, which ran from 1953 to 1988. Item #089152
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