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. 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… Read more about this item

Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. blue cloth, 1st ed., 185 pages, (NO DJ). Exterior lightly faded, spine lettering faint, front endpapers off-set.

Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1958. Limited. hardcover. near fine/very good. Illustrated in black & white. 185pp. 8vo, blue cloth, dust wrapper (some soiling to surface). Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1958. Limited edition of 1000. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

American Antiquarian Society. Used - Very Good. 1958. American Antiquarian Society, 1958. 8vo, 185 pp, VG in cloth. Well illustrated in b&w. Interesting memoir on collecting Americana, primarily books and ephemera. (Subject: Books on Books.)