LOT OF 27 1880-1883 GOLDEN DAYS FOR BOYS & GIRLS*BASEBALL*FISHING*PUZZLES*++++++ - $100 - (Snow Hill, MD)

LOT OF 27 1880-1883 GOLDEN DAYS FOR BOYS & GIRLS*BASEBALL*FISHING*PUZZLES*++++++ APPLEBY'S ATTIC TREASURES Specializing in Original Vintage Ephemera - Advertising - Postcards - Victorian Trade Cards - And More! Item: Lot of 27 issues - Golden Days for Boys & Girls. 1880-1883. Issues with the blue covers have ads inside - everything from bicycles to opium addiction help. Other topics include: baseball reference cartoon (shown in photo) - yachting - whaling - vampire bats - fishing - Christmas - Santa Claus - +++++ Each issue has a puzzle page. Lots of great stories, pictures, etc. Each issue measures approx. 11" x 14" Fair condition. Weight is 3 1/2 pounds. ***International bidders please note***we use eBay's Global Shipping Program and shipping prices are not negotiable. Thank you! More info: Golden Days for Boys and Girls was a late 19th-century children's story paper, distributed weekly as an accompaniment to the paper Saturday Night. Running from March 6, 1880 to May 11, 1907,[1] Golden Days cost subscribers only $3 a year. It was the brainchild of newspaperman James Elverson (1838–1911), who later owned the Philadelphia Inquirer.[2][3][4][5] The first printing of this paper had an output of three million copies, and by the second number, had 52,000 subscribers.[6] According to a newspaper advertisement in 1885, the 16 page weekly had a circulation above 70,000 by this year.[7] Another ad circa 1888 puts the number somewhere between 110,000 and 120,000 weekly sales, being distributed from coast to coast in the United States.[8] Golden Days featured stories, activities and lessons which were mostly gender-specific, with separate stories appealing to boys and girls. Many of the stories were serialized over several issues; a measure designed to drive increased weekly sales. The themes largely involved school, athletics, westerns and the frontier, travel, exploration, adventure, the sea, and success stories.[9] The paper also included a weekly puzzle page, Puzz…

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