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A to Z by Peter Mabie – 1929

Posted on February 25, 2010August 2, 2015 by Martha

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.

Click on the gallery thumbnail to see the full view.

7 thoughts on “A to Z by Peter Mabie – 1929”

  1. pratima says:
    February 25, 2010 at 4:27 pm

    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 🙂

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  2. Amy says:
    February 25, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    Gorgeous!

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  3. Karen Beigh says:
    February 25, 2010 at 8:28 pm

    I can see why the book intrigues you. Those are wonderful alphabet pictures!

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  4. Allie says:
    February 25, 2010 at 9:01 pm

    Wow – this is the best I’ve ever seen too – no wonder it’s so expensive! This is fabulous. Thank you for sharing these!

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  5. Holly says:
    February 26, 2010 at 2:56 pm

    Lovely! AAAAaand look….Q is for QUILTER!

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  6. Mary says:
    February 28, 2010 at 12:59 pm

    Wow. These are so cute! I particularly love the castle!

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  7. Jan says:
    March 7, 2010 at 10:20 am

    Very beautiful! I love the vegetables!

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