Item #26819 Seventy-five years, or the joys and sorrows of publishing and selling books at Duttons from 1852 to 1927. Compiled from a variety of original sources and lavishly illustrated with prints and engravings depicting the growth of Duttons... and showing views of the establishments of their many correspondents in foreign lands.

Seventy-five years, or the joys and sorrows of publishing and selling books at Duttons from 1852 to 1927. Compiled from a variety of original sources and lavishly illustrated with prints and engravings depicting the growth of Duttons... and showing views of the establishments of their many correspondents in foreign lands.

[New York]: Duttons, [c1927]. First edition limited to 500 copies, this one of 350 numbered and signed "Henry C. Smith, Secy.", 8vo, pp. [6], 120; hand-colored folding frontispiece after watercolor showing "The Old Corner Book Store, Boston, 1853," 26 plates included in pagination, and a few facsimiles and illustrations in the text; a very good copy in original brown cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine, some wear to extremities revealing boards at bottom forecorners. Item #26819

Price: $30.00