Conant, James Bryant

Our Fighting Faith, Five Addresses to College Students

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1942. Second printing. Hardcover. Octavo, pp. (3), 4-105; three quarter pebbled red morocco and red cloth boards with the gilt circular seal of Harvard University on the upper board, top edge gilt, spine lettered in gilt with raised bands; Very good. This copy presented by the Harvard Club to Francis Russell Hart, III as a Prize Book and specially bound. The famous Francis Russell Hart bookplate is present in a smaller version and tipped on to the front paste-down. This bookplate pictures a ship atop a globe with maps and an astrolabe in the foreground. Hart's name is across the top. Hart's collection centered on the Caribbean and is housed at the Hart nautical Museum at MIT in Cambridge. Very good .

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Book number: 19065

Catalogue: Essays

Dinesen, Isak

Daguerreotypes and Other Essays; with a Foreword by Hannah Arendt

(Chicago), University Of Chicago Press, 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xxv, (i), 229, notes; blue cloth lettered in silver in a pictorial dust jacket. Very good/a tiny bit of wear on the spine else a very good.

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Book number: 18822

Catalogue: Essays