[American Bookseller's Catalogue]:

$400 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

BOOKS, PUBLISHED AND FOR SALE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, BY JOHN B. PERRY, No. 198 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA. Philadelphia bookseller's catalogue and advertisements, most likely issued in the mid-1850s. Perry lists a number of popular-style books in the catalogue, including how-to guides, songbooks, works relating to love and romance, adventure narratives, and a pair of sensational books on murders, which Perry describes at length. Also featured are blank books, annuals, a fine-paper edition of Pilgrim's Progress, and Perry's popular quarto Family Bible. With two pages of text advertisements for lithograph prints, frames, and Perry's Philadelphia store, and a full-page advertisement for The Comical Songster illustrated with a clown straddling a bass drum. An unusual catalogue from a pulp publisher dealing in marginal and sensational literature.

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