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DAWE, GROSVENOR. MELVIL DEWEY. SEER: INSPIRER: DOER, 1851-1931.
Essex County, NY: Lake Placid Club, 1932. First edition. 391 pp. Biblio. Index. Plus 40 plates from photographs. Plus 1 fldg. map. Gilt cloth. Large 8vo. A fine copy. Dewey not only invented the Dewey Decimal System, thereby bringing library cataloguing into the 20th century, he also developed a simplified spelling system (in which this book is written) and was a founder of the Lake Placid Club in the Adirondack Mountains.
Offered for US$ 50.00 by: Almagre Books - Book number: 14231