McCRUM, Blanche Prichard, and JONES, Helen Dudenbostel - Bibliographical Procedures & Style: A Manual for Bibliographers in the Library of Congress

Washington, DC, The Library of Congress, 1966. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff blue wrappers. vi, 127pp. Very good. Faint wear to outer wrappers, though internally fine. Tight, handsome reprint of this 1954 standard reference -- with a fine autograph addition: Tipped to the front matter is a nice Typed Letter Signed from Basler -- who writes the preface to this edition -- 1p,10" X 7 3/4", Washington, DC, 1974 February 25. Addressed to noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar Arnold F. Gates (1914-93). Fine. On "Library of Congress" letterhead, which Basler served as long-time director of the reference department, Basler chats about a collection of E.D.E.S. Southworth documents the Library just acquired with the help of Gates. Signed in full in black ballpoint. Basler (1906-89) was a historian and editor of the 1953 9-volume "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. .

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