1930s Extremely Rare Vintage “Honey Boy Bread” Child’s Text Book Cover … Advertising Ephemera, Newly Framed

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This is a really unique … vintage advertising item.

Very rare item ! Vintage book covers for elementary school children … more This is a really unique … vintage advertising item.

Very rare item ! Vintage book covers for elementary school children are extremely rare because of their fragile and “temporary” nature.

(And … upon reflection … I could have kept the book cover intact and matted over the torn and tattered edges.)

The framed item is a portion of the protective “book cover” that was found on an old and very worn “local” school grammar book; from a student’s book in Hagerstown, Indiana ... with handwritten notes therein referencing that one of the “inscribers” was a student in the class of “1935”….

This popular grammar school book was published in 1929 and it is surmised that the book cover is of a similar vintage.

The book is entitled:

“Better Speech” ...
By Woolbert & Weaver.

Copies of this book in fine condition can be found on vintage book collector websites in decent condition.
(See photos sequenced 9th & 10th … sourced from EBay.)

We still have the very tattered book in our possession from which we removed the book cover…. (See photo sequenced in 6th position. Its first 24 pages are missing, for example. But, 100s of old-time and witty English speech instruction remain.)

Although our book copy is in rough condition, it permeates Hoosier nostalgia. It has names of presumably young local students inscribed from Hagerstown in the early 1930s … including surnames of Thalls and McKinnon, inside the cover. See photos sequenced 7th & 8th. It will be included in this purchase … at no additional cost.

It also appears … per some online research … that said Doc McKinnon was born in 1911 and may have lived to age 112 ! Assuming an incredible obituary that we located regards this “same” … Doc McKinnon.

The book’s publication date supports or enhances this “advertising” item’s provenance.

The framed portion of the book cover is the result of us excising or removing the full cover from the book … and carefully cutting out therefrom a “clean portion” … big enough and suitable for framing….

We then carefully placed the “cut out” portion of the Book Cover Ad into a new pine shadowbox, with black matte finish and glass cover … for display purposes.

As illustrated, the shadow box can be hung on the wall or placed on a table top.

The ad’s colors are very warm and rich.

The paper of the book cover is a heavy weighted paper with a mild satiny feel. Probably originally made with some protective sheen to it ... to repel dirt and moisture, since it's a protective cover for a child’s school book; back in the day when kids actually brought real books home from real brick & mortar schools.

What a novel idea. Real schools. And actual books with paper pages.

Hmmmm.

We’ve also spent an hour or two online and cannot find any other “Honey Boy Bread” information or items … anywhere; other than a photo of a Honey Boy Bread bakery. (See photo sequenced #5.)

Sweet down-home language in the ad. And really cool graphics.

The book … as noted above …apparently was a school book of a local Hagerstown area child who we believe may have ended up being an actual physician; and even nicknamed “Doc” as a child ... and it is so noted … in that very same text book ! “DOC” is even printed on the outside of the book cover. Presumably …
a Doc McKinnon…. (See photos sequenced #s 7-9.)

Hagerstown, Indiana is a quaint & historic neat community established in 1815.

One of a kind find !

[TMI - the only sample of another vintage childhood book cover located online … regarded a nondescript children’s MCM book cover advertising Eckards Drugs. See the last photo sequenced.] less