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The Times of Melville and Whitman
by BROOKS, Van Wyck
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- Hardcover
- Signed
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with blue spine lettering/rules, pictorial dust jacket. 489pp. Near fine/very good. Endpapers (only) a bit age toned; jacket faintly worn, with spine lightly sunned. Quite tight and attractive early (not first) printing of the third volume in Brooks' 5-volume "Makers and Finders" literary history series that began with "The Flowering of New England: 1818-1865" in 1936 and concluded with "The Confident Years:1885-1915" in 1952. This sharp copy bears a fine autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is an Autograph Note Signed from Brooks, blue heavy stock 5½" X 3½" postal card, New York, NY, 18 April 1948. Fine. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates (1914-93, noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar). On his imprinted note card, Brooks tells this admirer, "I will be glad to inscribe the books if you will send them here. But I cannot carry parcels to the post office. Please have the books stamped for return & wrapped in a package (or packages) small enough to be dropped into the parcel=box on my corner...." Handsomely penned and boldly signed; address portion on verso also in Brooks' hand.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48899
- Title
- The Times of Melville and Whitman
- Author
- BROOKS, Van Wyck
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
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- Books; Literary Criticism;
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