Bishop, William Warner, and Andrew Keogh (eds.).

ESSAYS OFFERED TO HERBERT PUTNAM by His Colleagues and Friends on His Thirtieth Anniversary as Librarian of Congress, 5 April 1929.

New Haven, (CT): Yale U. Press, 1929. First edition, 1/600 unnumbered copies. 8vo. x, (2), 555 pp. Five portrait plates of Putnam, two maps. Essays on the Library of Congress, librarianship, bibliography, and aspects of printing and publishing history by Melvil Dewey, Randolph G. Adams, J. Christian Bay, Max Farrand, Worthington C. Ford, Harry Miller Lydenburg, Oscar G. Sonneck, Henry R. Wagner, and Lawrence C. Wroth, among others. Bookplate on front pastedown, else very good. Blue cloth (a bit rubbed), gilt spine title. (10535). Item #64211

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