Search Results: contributions to american library history by eaton thelma editor

Champaign, Illinois: Illini Union Bookstore, 1961. NOT a library discard. Very Good condition. Thin strip of browning on the endpapers along the gutter (i.e. at the inner fold; probably offset from binder's glue). All other pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes NO owner's name or bookplate. A collection of articles by Herbert Putnam, George Watson Cole, Moses Coit Tyler, and others that present the story of U. S. libraries from colonial times thru the 19th century. Gives the background of private, mercantile, circulating, medical, traveling, subscription, college and other types of libraries. Provides histories of the Enoch Pratt, Boston Athenaeum, and other libraries in Boston, St. Louis, Rhode Island, Baltimore, etc. Chronology. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped red cloth.. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket, probably as issued. 8vo. xvii, 277pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Illini Union Bookstore. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. Ex-Lib .