Poor Men Who Made Us Rich by Wallace, Archer

Toronto, The Ryerson Press, 1933, hardcover, ix-130 pp, First Canadian Edition, First Printing, Very Good condition, lacking dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light spine-end and corner wear, spot to rear board. The author of Mothers of Famous Men and Boys Who Made Good offers a look at the lives and the accomplishments of fourteen men who were materially poor but nevertheless enriched the world including Socrates; Baruch Spinoza; Milton; Rembrandt; Bunyan; Mozart; Burns; Oliver Goldsmith; Samuel Johnson; Thomas Hood; Thoreau; John Howard Payne; Stephen Collins Foster; and Francis Thompson. Illustrated with drawings by Norman Deer.