Benedict Humphrey Sumner, 1893-1951. From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume XXXVII, London: Geoffrey Cumberlege

by Sir Charles Webster

$15 · Offered by Bolerium Books

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, c1951 . Offprint contemporary with appearance in the Proceedings, pp.359-372, a sewn pamphlet in 10x6.5 inch plain printed grey wraps. Has a fullpage photoportrait of Sumner on coated inserted stock, presswork is on nice alkaline paper. A tiny holograph inscription at upper cover corner is signed C ? W, most likely memoirist Webster. Item mildly edgeworn with a lower corner-tip crease, thread is quite sound, a good copy:

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