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DERBY, J.C. Fifty years among authors, books and publishers.
New York, G. W. Carleton, 1884. First edition, thick 8vo, pp. 739; frontispiece portrait; very good in slightly worn and rubbed original maroon cloth gilt. From "A Book Clerk at Fifteen," Derby traces his bibliophilic life in chapters headed by the names of important book people; among them are William H. Seward, Harper & Brothers, Horace Greeley, William Cullen Bryant, D. Appleton & Co., George Ripley and Charles A. Dana, Alfred S. Barnes, and William D. Ticknor.
Offered for US$ 85.00 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 30086