Fifty Years of Collecting Americana for the Library of The American Antiquarian Society 1908-1958.
Worcester, MA: The American Antiquarian Society, 1958. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 185pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/near fine. Item #49654
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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