Fifty years among authors, books and publishers

by J. C Derby

$85 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

New York: G. W. Carleton, 1884. First edition, thick 8vo, pp. 739; frontispiece portrait; very good in slightly worn and rubbed original maroon cloth gilt. From A Book Clerk at Fifteen, Derby traces his bibliophilic life in chapters headed by the names of important book people; among them are William H. Seward, Harper & Brothers, Horace Greeley, William Cullen Bryant, D. Appleton & Co., George Ripley and Charles A. Dana, Alfred S. Barnes, and William

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