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Metropolitan Press. Used - Very Good. 1937. First Edition Cloth, 318pp., illus.. (Subject: Books on Books & Cartography.)
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Landmarks and Literature: an American Travelogue
by Skiff, Frederick Woodward
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Landmarks and Literature: An American Travelogue
by SKIFF, Frederick Woodward
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Portland, OR: Metropolitan Press, 1937. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with paper spine label, pictorial dust jacket. 318pp. Frontispiece, full-page plates, map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn and rubbed, with spine lightly sunned. Handsome first edition of the second volume by this noted collector, author and bibliophile (1867-1947), a sequel to his 1935 first book "Adventures in Americana: Recollections of Forty Years Collecting Books, Furniture, China, Guns and Glass." He boldly and flamboyantly inscribes and signs the inner flyleaf in brown ink "To / Charles E. Rush / With the deep appreciation / and cordial regards / of the author / Frederick W. Skiff / November / 1937." Rush (1885-1958) was a noted librarian who had been vice president of the American Library Association and director of the Indianapolis Public Library (1917-28), Cleveland Public Library (1938-41) and University of North Carolina Library (Chapel Hill, 1941- 54). Skiff discusses the literary and bookish scene in…
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