Book Prices in 1901

[Kathy Geronzin <kathy_geronzin@po-1.northeast.k12.ia.us>]

On the cover of the American Primary Teacher magazine published in=20
February of 1901 the following prices are listed in the advertisement of=20
the American Book Company. The headline of the ad proclaims "The Best=20
School Books in the World". =20

Lane's Stories for Children  50 cents
Clarke's Arabian Nights  60 cents
Defoe's Robinson Crusoe  50 cents
Dicken's Tale of Two Cities 50 cents
Payne's Geographical Nature Studies 25 cents
Carpenter's Geographical Readers; Asia 60 cents, North America 60 cents,=20
South America 60 cents
Holder's Stories of Animal Life 60 cents
Dana's Plants and Their Children 65 cents
Guerber's story of the Thirteen Colonies 65 cents
Guerber's story the Great Republic 65 cents
Guerber's story the Chosen People 65 cents
Guerber's story of English 65 cents
Guerber's story of the Greeks 65 cents
Guerber's story of the Romans 65 cents
Markwick and Smith's The True Citizen 65 cents
Person's Our Country in Poem and Prose 65 cents=20



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Kathy Geronzin
District Librarian=20
Northeast Community Schools
369 Hwy #136
Goose Lake, IA 52750
319-577-2249
FAX 319-577-2248
FAX 319-577-2248
kathy_geronzin@po-1.northeast.k12.ia.us

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