[Rarebooks] For Sale: Grolier Club's "100 Influential American Books"

Norman Kane nkane at kanebooks.com
Sun Dec 23 23:11:07 EST 2007


GROLIER CLUB.   ONE HUNDRED INFLUENTIAL AMERICAN BOOKS PRINTED BEFORE 
1900 . . .  N. Y.: The Grolier Club,
1947.  The increasingly scarce first edition, limited to 600 copies 
designed by Elmer Adler and printed by A. Colish.
Contributions by Frederick B. Adams, Jr., John T. Winterich, Thos. H. 
Johnson & Geo. L. McKay.  Illustrations.  Index.         9 1/2 X 6 
1/2 inches, original linen-backed boards, some light foxing of the 
front blanks, otherwise an excellent copy.  Top edge gilt. (From the 
Bay Psalm Book to "The Theory of the Leisure Class." Laid in is a 
short-title offering of the 100 titles by the Jenkins Co., mostly in 
first editions.)    $200.00     (Trade Discount Available)


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113 Creeks Edge, Chapel Hill, NC USA 27516-8962
Telephone: 919-967-9287 email: nkane at kanebooks.com.
Proprietor: Norman Kane (50 years as an antiquarian bookseller.)





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