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Poems Selected from the Works of Henry Clinton Forbes
Published by Privately Printed; Tucson, Arizona, 1966
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. Scarce. From a manuscript in the Library of The University of Arizona. Aqua cloth-covered boards, gilt front board lettering, 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches, 94 pp. Frontispiece photo of Henry Clinton Forbes, Colonel, 7th Illinois Cavalry, 1865. Very good (two stains, top edge of book block, extending 3/8 inch onto two facing pages; sunning, spine; inscription on title page). Laid in is a stapled pamphlet compiled by R.H. Forbes, entitled "University of Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station Prefaces to publications 1910 to 1918". "Educator, researcher and legislator; Robert Forbes arrived in Tucson in 1894 to teach chemistry at the University of Arizona. He was appointed director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and, by 1915, was director of the College of Agriculture. In 1918, Forbes left the University of Arizona to become an agricultural consultant for the British government in Egypt, later working on crop research in Africa and the Caribbean. He returned to Arizona in 1931; from 1938 to 1952, he served in the Arizona state legislature. He was involved in legislation pertaining to the University of Arizona and Colorado River water allocations. He was also an active member of the Board of Directors of the Arizona Historical Society." (K081). Signed by Author(s).
