[Rarebooks] F/S Thompson's American Literary Annuals & Gift Books

[Garry Austin]

I discovered I have two of these in our reference library; So now offered to the list postpaid & net to all this important bibliography @$20

Thompson, Ralph.American Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 1825 - 1865. New York:H. W. Wilson,  1936.
First edition; octavo; pp; (viii), 183, index; blue cloth, gilt;clean and tight, very good.
Ex-college library copy with bookplate, usual markings, residue of pocket at rear. Includes a catalog of 855 examples of these annuals and gift books. Worth the price for the Poe listings in the index.