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An Almanack for Booklovers.

SOWERS, Roy Vernon (editor).

San Francisco: Roy Vernon Sowers, 1942. Hardcover. Small 4to. Light grey paper over boards with red lettering and decoration. 76pp. Illustrations. Fine. Item #49653

Tight and bright first edition of this old timey "Farmer's Almanack"-type compendium of miscellaneous book lore, trivia, poems, odds and ends of all bookish manner, "Comprising A BOOKMAN'S CALENDAR, also A CURIOUS ANTHOLOGIE selected from divers Authours these past 500 Yeares, and ADORNED WITH CUTS" -- a charming faux-medieval production illkustrated with 15th century woodcuts.

Price: $45.00