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Seller's Description:
Book. Octavo; G-/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, cream and yellow with black print; DJ in mylar, light edgewear with small tear at top of spine, light toning to spine, else clean and bright; Boards in brown cloth, light wear to spine caps and corners, else clean and strong; Text block has brown tinted top edge with stain, owner stamp on front pastedown, tanning to endpapers, occasional stains to top page edges, else clean and tight; 318 pages, frontispiece, illustrated (b&w plates). 1350987. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Very Good in Very Good-dust jacket. Text is clean. Cover shows light wear. Signed by author on reverse of front free endpaper. Dust jacket shows wear with chipping at edges and spine ends. DJ spine is discolored. NAP.; 318 pages; Signed by Author.
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8vo. Tan cloth with paper spine label, pictorial dust jacket. 318pp. Frontispiece, full-page plates, map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn and rubbed, with spine lightly sunned. Handsome first edition of the second volume by this noted collector, author and bibliophile (1867-1947), a sequel to his 1935 first book "Adventures in Americana: Recollections of Forty Years Collecting Books, Furniture, China, Guns and Glass." He boldly and flamboyantly inscribes and signs the inner flyleaf in brown ink "To / Charles E. Rush / With the deep appreciation / and cordial regards / of the author / Frederick W. Skiff / November / 1937." Rush (1885-1958) was a noted librarian who had been vice president of the American Library Association and director of the Indianapolis Public Library (1917-28), Cleveland Public Library (1938-41) and University of North Carolina Library (Chapel Hill, 1941-54). Skiff discusses the literary and bookish scene in Indianapolis, which is likely where he met and befriended Rush.
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Fine in Good jacket. 1st printing. Cloth with printed title label on spine. 318pp. Illustrated with portraits of some of the book collecting world's most recognized dealers and collectors from the 1930s. Endpaper maps. Presentation copy inscribed on the verso of the ffep. Laid in is the dust jacket of the 2nd printing of Skiff's other book, Adventures in Americana. This is a well-written account of the author's search, crisscrossing the United States, for fine books in the field of Americana. Fine in vg dj with minor chips, several wrinkles, & a couple of stains on the backstrip.
