Landmarks and Literature: An American Travelogue
by SKIFF, Frederick Woodward
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Portland, OR: Metropolitan Press, 1937. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with paper spine label, pictorial dust jacket. 318pp. Frontispiece, full-page plates, map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn and rubbed, with spine lightly sunned. Handsome first edition of the second volume by this noted collector, author and bibliophile (1867-1947), a sequel to his 1935 first book "Adventures in Americana: Recollections of Forty Years Collecting Books, Furniture, China, Guns and Glass." He boldly and flamboyantly inscribes and signs the inner flyleaf in brown ink "To / Charles E. Rush / With the deep appreciation / and cordial regards / of the author / Frederick W. Skiff / November / 1937." Rush (1885-1958) was a noted librarian who had been vice president of the American Library Association and director of the Indianapolis Public Library (1917-28), Cleveland Public Library (1938-41) and University of North Carolina Library (Chapel Hill, 1941- 54). Skiff discusses the literary and bookish scene in Indianapolis, which is likely where he met and befriended Rush.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49788
- Title
- Landmarks and Literature: An American Travelogue
- Author
- SKIFF, Frederick Woodward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Press
- Place of Publication
- Portland, OR
- Date Published
- 1937
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- Jacket
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- Sunned
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Spine Label
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