My Mother-in-Law
by Adams, Charles Follen
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
[Lowell, MA?]: C.I. Hood & Co., Apothecaries, 1872. Staplebound. [16] pages, illustrations, wraps. 4.5 x 4 in. Very Good. On back cover: My mother-in-law and my whole family take Hood's sarsaparilla. An advertisement in dialect poetry for sarsaparilla drink sold as medicine by Hood & Co. "Mine Moder-in-Law," by the popular dialect poet Charles Follen Adams, is accompanied by illustrations of scenes and explanations of illnesses and their remedies with Hood products. A second part, "Sequel to 'Dot Mother-in-Law,'" was written especially for this advertisement. Adams lived in Boston, not far from Hood's facilities in Lowell.
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- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 300779
- Title
- My Mother-in-Law
- Author
- Adams, Charles Follen
- Format/Binding
- Staplebound
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- C.I. Hood & Co., Apothecaries
- Place of Publication
- [Lowell, MA?]
- Date Published
- 1872
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Health, Health care; German American;
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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