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Stamford: Overbrook Press, 1944. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, paper cover label. Overbrook Press. small 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, paper cover label. (viii), 78, (8) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 1000 copies set in Linotype Baskerville with Lucian display on W & A All Rag Paper (Cahoon, pp.42-43). Sketches by T.M. Cleland. The establishment of a new college on the Yale campus; it became a Navy College under the V-12 program in WWII, with early morning bugle calls, air raid warnings, and trampled grass in the quadrangle from drilling Marine and Navy platoons. Near fine.
Pierson College (Yale): The First Decade 1933-1943 by James G. Leyburn - 1944
by James G. Leyburn
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Pierson College (Yale): The First Decade 1933-1943
by James G. Leyburn
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Stamford, CT: The Overbrook Press, 1944. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Fine. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY GORDON S. HAIGHT (MASTER OF PIERSON COLLEGE, ENGLISH PROFESSOR AT YALE [1950-1968] AND GEORGE ELIOT BOGRAPHER AND SCHOLAR) on the front free endpaper. A sharp, well-preserved copy to boot of the 1946 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in its duotone cloth. Octavo, deckled fore-edge, limited to 1,000 copies.
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- Edition 1st
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- Publisher The Overbrook Press
- Place of Publication Stamford, CT
- Date Published 1944
- Keywords Rare Yale, The Overbrook Press, rare College Histories, rare Association Copies
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by Leyburn, James G
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