During a war between the English and Americans, an American doctor was unjustly taken prisoner aboard an English ship. Francis Scott Key went to plead for the prisoner, and while on board the ship saw the battle which inspired him to write the Star-spangled banner.
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During a war between the English and Americans, an American doctor was unjustly taken prisoner aboard an English ship. Francis Scott Key went to plead for the prisoner, and while on board the ship saw the battle which inspired him to write the Star-spangled banner.
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LOWITZ, Sadyebeth. [With Anson Lowitz]. MR. KEY'S SONG. Another Really Truly Story. NY: Grosset & Dunlap, [1937]. Oblong 12mo., pictorial boards in dust jacket. First Edition. The story, for young readers, of how "The Star Spangled Banner" was written-one of a series of books by the Lowitzs regarding historic American events. Signed by both Sadyebeth and Anson Lowitz on the verso of the front endpaper & uncommon thus! Very Good (little edgewear boards; contents clean & tight; with a 1939 Christmas presentation to the former owner from her grandparents on the front pastedown); some rubbing, ceases & short tears (small chip at each spine end with some fading spine; interior mends with clear tape to spine & front flap folds) d/j. $175.00.
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GOOD. JACKET: GOOD DJ. 7 X 8 1/4. Pictorial dust jacket in a Mylar protective cover: mild book, shelf, edge wear, rubs, corner bumps, creases, some soil marks. Pictorial boards: mild book, shelf, edge wear, corner bumps, front/back hinge cracks. Interior: unpaginated, pages browning especially at the spine, some illustrations in color. _PAB_
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GOOD. JACKET: GOOD DJ. 7 X 8 1/4. Pictorial dust jacket in a Mylar protective cover: mild book, shelf, edge wear, rubs, corner bumps, creases, some soil marks. Pictorial boards: mild book, shelf, edge wear, corner bumps, front/back hinge cracks. Interior: unpaginated, pages browning especially at the spine, some illustrations in color. _PAB_
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GOOD. JACKET: GOOD DJ. 7 X 8 1/4. Pictorial dust jacket in a Mylar protective cover: mild book, shelf, edge wear, rubs, corner bumps, creases, some soil marks. Pictorial boards: mild book, shelf, edge wear, corner bumps, front/back hinge cracks. Interior: ink signature and date from the previous owner on the front free end paper, unpaginated, pages browning especially at the spine, some illustrations in color. _PAB_
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Very good. JACKET: GOOD DJ. 9X7. Cover slightly frayed, cracked and discolored with mylar covering. Inside seam is cracked, yellowing on pages eminating from spine. Name of previous owner is written on sticker on inside cover. Pages are clean, binding is tight. Color and black and white sketches throughout. _PAB_
