Phelps was a popular and prolific author who also taught at Yale for many years and also taught the first university course on the modern American novel. This copy INSCRIBED and dated by Phelps (to Virgina Ford, my friend, 14 July 1923) . He devotes chapters to such American luminaries as Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abraham Lincoln, Danile Webster and James Fenimore Cooper. INSCRIBED by the author, very good cond. ; 12mo 7" - 7�" tall; Signed by Author.

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Title: Some Makers Of American Literature [SIGNED COPY]
Publisher: Marshall Jones Company, Boston
Publication Date: 1923
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: with no dust jacket
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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