American First Editions

Merle Johnson (Ed). First edition, limited edition (one of only 1,000 copies printed). Dust Jacket: Not issued. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1929. Navy cloth with white emblem on spine. No writing or markings in the book, 241 pp.

Bibliographic Check Lists of the Works of One Hundred and Five American Authors. First edition. Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Boston. A very good copy. The standard reference work which predates the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL). One of only 1,000 limited edition copies produced with an eight page addenda laid-in in the rear.