Diets and Riots: An Interpretation of the History of Harvard University SIGNED FIRST EDITION (Memorable Pages from the Annals of Harvard)

Published by Marshall Jones Company, Boston, 1936

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First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Alma M. Bevis to a friend and dated March 12, 1940 to front free endpaper, association copy. Stated first edition. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiii, 127pp. Rather heavy wear to dust jacket, with small tears to edges and extremities and dampstain to sunned spine. Bound in full crimson cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild wear to binding, with bumping to extremities. Binding is firm, square, and sound. Pages are gently age-toned, else clean and unmarked. A highly presentable first printing, signed by the author, of this humorous history of Harvard University as told through a series of gustatory and riotous events, including: the banning of plum cake, the great feast of 1642, the butter rebellion, the battle of India tea, the anti-Christian spoons, the annual stolen kiss, the great rebellion, fires around the pump, the lone fish ball, the cabbage rebellion, Rinehart!, the forty toasts, John the Orangemen translates Veritas, and more.

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Title
Diets and Riots: An Interpretation of the History of Harvard University SIGNED FIRST EDITION (Memorable Pages from the Annals of Harvard)
Author
Bevis, A. M.
Publisher
Marshall Jones Company, Boston
Publication year
1936
Condition
Very good
Dust jacket
good
Signed
Signed
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First Edition.
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Underground Books, ABAA is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop, founded in 2011 as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia, which is now operated by out former store manager as The Underground Bookshop. Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women’s Initiative Mentorship Program. Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.…

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