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Published in new york by the grolier society and london by the educational book co. The new book of knowledge has 50 pages of articles on birds, their anatomy, their habits, and so forth, rather in the fashion of a school textbook, but the old book of knowledge has 9 pages on storks, herons, and plovers alone, with information straight from the memory of an old bird watcher and afficionado including a flashy account of a. Chapters 25 attempt to account for the value of knowledge in terms of its components. Inside it states copyright, 1926,1927, the grolier society, copyright 1923,1924,1925,1926,1927 by the amalgamated press 1922.
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These are childrens encyclopedias by the grollier society, dated 1923. The book of knowledge was an encyclopedia aimed at juveniles first published in 1912, by the. One was the bluebound 1920s edition of the childrens encyclopedia which hed bought and the other was the 1930s wonderland of knowledge that his parents subscribed to when he was young. The book of knowledge was an encyclopedia aimed at juveniles first published in 1912, by the grolier society. Get cozy and expand your home library with a large online selection of.
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