[Rarebooks] The Last Bookman/Vincent Starrett Festschrift

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Ruber, Peter.  The Last Bookman:  A  Journey into the Life & Times of Vincent 
Starrett  (Author-Journalist-Bibliophile).  With an Unorthodox Introduction 
by  the Late Christopher Morley and a Chronicle of Friendship & Tribute through 
 Poetry & Prose by Franklin P. Adams, Delos Avery, Fanny Butcher, August  
Derleth, Henry Dierkes, Harry Hansen, Ben Hecht, Thomas Kennedy, Charles Layng,  
Haniel Long, Eshter Longfellow, Russell McLauchlin, Christopher Morley, Barry 
J.  Owens, David A. Randall, Carl Sandburg, George Steele Seymour, Paul  
Jordan-Smith, Frank Smothers, Jacob C. Solovay, Robert S. Starrett, Raube  Walter, 
Louis Zara, Together with Photographs, Excerpts from V. S. Letters,  A 
Checklist of V. S. Books.  NYC:  The Candlelight Press,  Inc., First Printing June, 
1968.  First Edition, Limited to 2500  copies.  4to, pp. 115.  Full-bound red 
cloth boards, gold-stamped  spine, bonded creme papers.  Illustrated.  Bright, 
tight,  intact, text-block clean.  Very Fine condition.  Pictorial  
dust-jacket mylar protected, price inked  out, edgewear.  Very Good+ condition.
 
 
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