Word Shadows of the Great: The Lure of Autograph Collecting
Published by Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1930
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB
AbeBooks seller since September 25, 1996
Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 450.00
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Illustrated in black and white. 300 pages, 8vo, vellum-backed cream colored boards with a gilt-lettered spine (previous owner's bookplate inside the front cover). New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1930. Limited Collectors' edition; No. 281 of 300. Near fine. Boldly signed in full on the limitation page by Madigan. Also included is a five-line autographed letter signed by Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), an English philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist. This one-page letter, written on blind-stamped "Athenaeum Club" stationery measuring 7 x 4.5 inches, is expertly laid into the book on a special preliminary page made for this very purpose, in full: "Tuesday Dear Lady Lubbock I hope to be with you on Friday, by which time I hope you will have mended your ways in the choice of reading! Sincerely yours, Herbert Spencer." Pall Mall, London, no date. Horizontal folds; small paper remnant along the left edge. Very good condition.
Seller Inventory # 250819
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Word Shadows of the Great: The Lure of Autograph Collecting
- Author
- MADIGAN, Thomas F.
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes, New York
- Publication year
- 1930
- Condition
- near fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- hardcover
- Edition
- Limited.
- Seller catalogs
- LIMITED, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, SOCIOLOGY
Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB
New York, NY, U.S.A.
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We are a large retail store, with 6 floors of out-of-print and rare books, (including Americana, modern first editions, history of medicine and science), antique maps and prints, autograph manuscripts, letters & signatures.
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Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB
116 East 59th Street
New York, NY U.S.A. 10022
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