Worcester [Mass.] Palladium, Volume III, Number 15, Wednesday, April 13, 1836, Containing a Detailed Early Account of the Fall of the Alamo Toy and movable books with two small chips to

with two small chips to the lower edge of the front panel and two chips to the back panel—a smaller one at the top edge and a larger one at the lower fore-edge corner

This was the first of Newell's novelty books in the same vein as The Rocket Book

with upper case alphabet above a central image of sheep by a tree

color pictorial paste-on within a stamped dark blue decorative border to front cover with no signs of handling or wear

Worcester [Mass.] Palladium, Volume III, Number 15, Wednesday, April 13, 1836, Containing a Detailed Early Account of the Fall of the Alamo Toy and movable books with two small chips to(Texas Interest) Knowlton, [J. S. C.], Editor and Publisher. Worcester Palladium. Volume III, Number 15, Wednesday, April 13, 1836. Containing a Detailed Early Account of the Fall of the Alamo. Worcester, Massachusetts: [J. S. C. Knowlton], April 13, 1836. FIRST EDITION. Elephant folio, 22 5 8" x 17 1 8" (575 x 435 mm). Collating [4] pp. complete, printed across six dense typographic columns per page. Unbound as issued, comprising a single folded