[Children

[Children's & Illustrated] [Pyle, Howard] Key, Francis Scott
Songs We Love, Star Spangled Banner
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, (1912). Presumed first edition. 12mo. Illustrated with tipped in frontispiece. Publisher's flexible wrappers with pictorial onlay and blue silk tie through spine; in publisher's glassine wrapper and white box, very lightly soiled.A charmingly decorated book containing the text of Francis Scott Key's patriotic poem, which was adopted as the national anthem of the United States almost twenty years after this volume's publication.