Fifty Years of Collecting Americana for the Library of The American Antiquarian Society 1908-1958
by BRIGHAM, Clarence S
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About This Item
Worcester, MA: The American Antiquarian Society, 1958. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 185pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition, limited to 1000 copies, of this half-century chronicle by that august society's third librarian, who began in 1903 and ascended to the directorship in 1930, not retiring until 1959. A glorious read, I might add.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49654
- Title
- Fifty Years of Collecting Americana for the Library of The American Antiquarian Society 1908-1958
- Author
- BRIGHAM, Clarence S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The American Antiquarian Society
- Place of Publication
- Worcester, MA
- Date Published
- 1958
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- Gilt
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