Author: DICKINSON, ASA DON (UNIV. OF PENNSYLVANIA) - DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY
Title: One Thousand Best Books: The Household Guide to a Lifetime's Reading - A Variorum List Compiled from Many Authoritative Selections
Description: Doubleday Page, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover . Stated First Edition & Same Date cp & tp. Hardback, octavo, 5 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches, gilt titling & graphic (spine only) on dark maroon cloth covers, xx + 416 pages, VG+/no dj (stiff clear acetate dustwrapper provided to preserve condition). Snug binding, square corners, clean covers, generally very clean interior incl no names, no writing. Spine's gilt part-way darkened, both the titling and the graphic (familiar Carl Spitzweg image of "The Bookworm" atop a ladder with a book between his knees). Culmination of Dickinson's 20-years of effort consisting of: This Book and How to Use It, Description of Lists Cited (recommendation sources alphabetically arranged), List of the Titles arranged alphabetically by Author, Authors arranged by Dates, Authors by Nationality, Authors by Number of Endorsements, Titles by Number of Endorsements, Authors & Titles by Subject or Literary Form, Index of Titles, ten lists of One Hundred Books recommended to be read (or acquired?) by year ten years out 1925-1934 (equals the one thousand!) & Appendix (a publ 1924 home library list of 200 titles arranged by subject chosen by the Literary Division of the General Federation of Women's Clubs). Very Good.

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