This is one of the best alphabet books I’ve ever seen — a 1929 Art Deco ABC book by the fabulous Peter Mabie. I don’t own this one (it’s prohibitively expensive), but over the past year I have slowly managed to find photos of the inside pages on library and auction sites. Because I know there are others who would love to see these images in one place, I am posting them here. I’m sorry that a few of the pictures are cut off a bit on the left or right, and I did not include the smaller drawings on the bottom of each page because many of these were missing on my images — they are included on the letter J so you can see how they look in the actual book.
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The drawings are so delightful and so full of color. I think they look striking because of the black in the background. Thank you, Martha 🙂
Gorgeous!
I can see why the book intrigues you. Those are wonderful alphabet pictures!
Wow – this is the best I’ve ever seen too – no wonder it’s so expensive! This is fabulous. Thank you for sharing these!
Lovely! AAAAaand look….Q is for QUILTER!
Wow. These are so cute! I particularly love the castle!
Very beautiful! I love the vegetables!