The Reaper: A History of the Efforts of Those Who Justly May Be Said to Have Made Bread Cheap.
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, [1931]. Hardcover. Edited by Arthur Pound. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. xviii, 382pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Binding mildly worn, with spine lettering rubbed; both endpapers rather age toned; faint dampstain to lower portion of some pages. Item #49393
A tight and decent first edition of this chronicle of the development of mechanical reapers. Steward (1841-1915) was a passionate historian of the reaper and here posits that many other than Cyrus McCormick helped develop the pioneering invention. Editor Arthur Pound (1884-1961) was an author/editor who in 1935-36 was research professor of American history at the University of Pittsburgh. It was while here that he presented this copy to a library in nearby Greencastle, penning "Presented by the author" on front flyleaf and "Greencastle Circulating / Library / 1935" on front pastedown quite large in pale blue ink.
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