Product Description
A richly illustrated educational reader from the 'Road to Safety' series, designed for upper elementary students and centered on transportation, civic awareness, and public safety.
Produced during the late 1930s - a period marked by rapid advances in automotive, rail, maritime, and aviation travel - the book combines narrative selections with practical safety instruction.
Topics include modern highways, fire services, bridges, and travel by land, sea, and air, reflecting contemporary concerns with modernization and public responsibility.
The volume is especially notable for its striking Art Deco-influenced illustrations, printed in both color and line, depicting trains, ocean liners, early aircraft, automobiles, and emergency scenes.
Contributions from writers such as Carol R.
Brink and Irving Crump provide engaging literary content alongside instructional material.
The typography, layout, and pictorial cloth binding exemplify American Book Company's high production standards for prewar educational publishing.
Very Good+ condition.
Binding remains tight and square with bright, well-preserved pictorial cloth; light rubbing and minor soiling to boards, with slight wear at spine ends and corners.
Interior pages are clean and crisp with minimal toning and no significant markings observed.
Illustrated endpapers are fresh and intact.
Copyright page shows 1938 for both U.
S.
and Philippine Islands editions, with 'E.
P.
9' confirming an early printing and no indications of later reissue.
Horace Mann Buckley and his co-authors Margaret L.
White, Alice B.
Adams, and Leslie R.
Silvernale were prominent figures in early 20th-century American education, particularly in curriculum development and school administration in Ohio.
Their collaborative work reflects a Progressive Era emphasis on practical knowledge, civic responsibility, and safety education.
Through the 'Road to Safety' series, they contributed to shaping how generations of students understood modern transportation and public safety in an increasingly mechanized world.
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