Item #65576 Word Shadows of the Great: The Lure of Autograph Collecting (Autograph Edition). Thomas F. Madigan, John Fiske.
Word Shadows of the Great: The Lure of Autograph Collecting (Autograph Edition).
Word Shadows of the Great: The Lure of Autograph Collecting (Autograph Edition).
Word Shadows of the Great: The Lure of Autograph Collecting (Autograph Edition).
Word Shadows of the Great: The Lure of Autograph Collecting (Autograph Edition).

Word Shadows of the Great: The Lure of Autograph Collecting (Autograph Edition).

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930. Autograph Edition. Hardcover. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. 300pp. Bound in blue cloth, white and gilt design to cover. Illustrated throughout with facsimiles, 41 in half-tone and 12 in line. This is the autograph edition limited to 150 copies, this being copy 35. Each of these 150 books has a different hand written autographed note or letter bound in to the front. This copy has a signed quote by John Fiske from his work "The Destiny of Man (p. 60) ". Opposite it is a "Certification of Genuiness" signed by Madigan and notorized. A few stains to the cover, some rubbing to edges of boards. Very Good. Item #65576

Fiske was a historian, philosopher annd populariser of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.

Price: $300.00

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