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BOOKS.BOOKS.NEW AND SECOND-HAND AT S.H. ZAHM AND CO'S BOOK ROOMS, 18 & 20 SOUTH QUEEN ST., LANCASTER, PAby Zahm Booksellers broadside
DescriptionLancaster, PA: S.H. Zahm. not bound. Very Good. display type. Text continues: ".School Books New or Second-hand at the Lowest Prices. Fancy Cards, Paper, Envelopes, Pens, Pencils, Slates, &c. New Books Ordered at Lowest Prices. German or English Books of all kinds Bought for Cash ." Samuel Hensel Zahm, bookseller and sometime publisher, seems to have opened his bookshop in 1875 [see James Clegg, Directory of Second-hand Booksellers, 1891]. In the 1880s, Zahm was issuing catalogs, &c. WolfPac lists one Zahm imprint, a folio broadside (Our New Store.), ca. 1877. By 1903, the business had been sold to Samuel Auxer. The broadside offered here is not dated. Printed on card stock. 6.5" x 8". Similar books from this booksellerFrom this bookseller's Book Ephemera catalog.
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