John Shaw Billings: Creator of the National Medical Library and Its Catalogue -- First Director of the New York Public Library
Chicago: American Library Association, 1924. Hardcover. [8], 94, [2] p., tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Billings with facsimile signaure; 23 cm. Original dark green cloth spine with brown paper over boards; printed paper spine label with title: John Shaw Billings: A Biography. Series title page indicating this is the first title in the series American Library Pioneers, edited by Arthur E. Bostwick. This is no. 141 of a limited edition of 1,000 copies printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Boston, in June, 1924, of which 500 are numbered. Ex-library: bookplate of the Free Public Library of Newark, New Jersey, on front fixed endpaper; remains of spine label on spine; accession and classification numbers on Preface page; embossed library stamp on free endpapers and one or more other leaves; back free endpaper has loss where pocket was removed. In Good Condition: ex-library, as described above; corners are rubbed; minor loss at ends of spine; other than library markings, clean and tight. Good. Item #005907
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