Author: PARSONS, FRANCIS; FOREWORD BY CHARLES SEYMOUR, PRESIDENT, YALE UNIVERSITY
Title: SIX MEN OF YALE
Description: New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1939. 1939. Hardcover . Hardback, octavo, appx 6 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches, gilt titling on blue cloth, xii + 145 pages, VG+/no dj (stiff clear acetate dustwrapper provided to preserve condition). Tight square binding w/ hinges intact, only very minor amt of wear corners & ends, crisp clean pages throughout. Only real flaw is inside front cover bookplate neatly signed by the previous owner (Wisconsin native w/ a circa early 1950s Yale Law degree & who had a lengthy career w/ a prominent Twin Cities law firm). The six men (each pictured on a plate ahead of his article): Elisha Williams, Ezra Stiles, Benjamin Silliman, Edward J. Phelps, Timothy Dwight & Henry Augustin Beers. Very Good.

Keywords: Colleges & Universities Education Biography American History