Poor Will's Pocket Almanack, for the Year 1784 Children - Conduct of life " Chicago: [John B

" Chicago: [John B

The back page artwork by Emory Douglas features a Black man armed with a military style rifle aimed directly at a policeman

Eleventh edition

The period presentation frame and overmat show light handling and age-appropriate toning

Poor Will's Pocket Almanack, for the Year 1784 Children - Conduct of life " Chicago: [John B(Almanacs 18th Century) POOR WILL'S POCKET ALMANACK, FOR THE YEAR 1784. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Joseph Crukshank, [1783]. FIRST EDITION. 24mo 4 1 8" x 2 9 16". Original string bound thick paper wrappers with splitting along the hinge, a crease to the lower fore edge corner of rear wrapper and a small loss of paper to the tip of same for what is a nice copy of the almanac. [24] pp., with a thick unprinted guard leaf bound in between each