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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine condition. Good dust jacket. First Edition, Limited 750 copies. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1932. INSCRIBED to historian Paul M. Angle and SIGNED "with sincere regards" by the AUTHOR on a preliminary blank page. Near Fine condition in a Good dust jacket. The jacket is largely intact, but has small chips and tears and is separating at the spine. It is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. 1932. First Edition. Limited to 750 copies. Preface by Andre Maurois. Contents in 3 parts: "The Evolution of the Bookcollector," "The Lure of Collecting," and "The Antiquarian Bookseller." Designed by Frederic Warde. Printed by William Edwin Rudge. Bound in the original gilt-stamped, dark brown boards. Gilt stamping is as bright and shiny as new. Complete with dust jacket. The historian Paul McClelland Angle (1900-1975) was one of America's foremost scholars of Abraham Lincoln and his times. Among his many books are MARY LINCOLN, WIFE AND WIDOW, co-written with Carl Sandburg in 1932; THE LINCOLN READER ; BLOODY WILLIAMSON; A SHELF OF LINCOLN BOOKS; THE TRAGIC YEARS , 1860-1865 (with Earl Schenck Miers); etc. Mr. Angle served as Director of the Chicago Historical Society. The front pastedown endpaper bears the bookplate of W. L. Necker (Chicago Academy of Sciences). INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition, Limited 750 copies. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 91 pages. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustratore).…