Newell, Peter. THE ROCKET BOOK. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1912], (1912). FIRST EDITION; "Published October, 1912" on title-page verso. 8vo - 8-7/8" x 7-1/4". Blue cloth covered boards with large color pictorial paste-label applied to front cover with minor touches of wear to paste-label for what is a remarkably nice copy of the book. Plain endpapers with previous owner's name neatly written on FFEP. [48] pp. Another one of Newell's novelty books in the same vein as The Hole Book. The story, which is told in verse, with text printed on versos, begins with Fritz, the Janitor's bad kid, firing off a rocket in the basement of his building; each text page with a full page color drawing on opposing recto for a total of twenty-two full page drawings by Newell; from the second illustration on, each page features a die-cut oval hole representing the rocket's path as it passes through the twenty floors of Fritz's building; the reader becomes witness to the destruction and general mayhem that Fritz's action sets into motion; in internally the book is fine. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. SCARCE in such nice condition. # 000795