Mar 26, 2015 - Sale 2377

Sale 2377 - Lot 440

Price Realized: $ 156
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(WWI.) SCOTT, EMMETT J. Scott's Official History of the Negro in the World War (salesman's dummy). Sample illustrations, text and order forms. 4to, original gilt pictorial red cloth. Np, 1919
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uncommon pre-publication salesman's 'dummy' with sample pages of the text and copious illustrations. The potential door-to-door salesman is provided with all sorts of 'pitches,' in the form of 'Sales Talk' at the front of the book, and just in case he actually does sell a copy there are ample pages of order forms at the rear. Not in Arbour, Canvassing Books.