The Verse By the Side of the Road: The Story of the Burma-Shave Signs and Jingles. By Frank Rowsome Jr. With drawings by Carl Rose. Hardcover book with dust jacket. Published in 1972 by Stephen Greene Press: Brattleboro, Vermont. Containing all 600 of the roadside rhymes. Vintage book. Advertising for American brand Burma-Shave, brushless shaving cream made famous for its advertising gimmick of posting humorous rhyming poems on small sequential highway road signs. Very good pre-owned condition; some edgewear to the jacket, inscription at front flap of the jacket, binding secure, very good interior pages.
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