First edition of the first installment of this long-running cultural institution, containing the biographies of 8,602 prominent 19th-century Americans.
Very good plus.
Price: $500.00
"To be able to [read about] the lives of these people that have been through so much [...] it's so extraordinary; the lessons, the discouragements they've faced, everything about them." — Warren Buffett
"Whatever may be thought of it in other respects, Who's Who in America can with confidence claim for itself the distinction of being something new in American book-making, for while in its basic idea, it counterparts some well known foreign publications, it has no American predecessor by which its merits may be judged or its faults condemned. The title of the book sufficiently suggests that its compilation was mainly inspired by the well-known English annual, 'Who's Who' Now in its fifty-second year); but comparison will reveal many modifications and changes of arrangement and treatment, adopted in order to make Who's Who in America more perfect;y suited to American conditions and requirements" (Preface).
First edition. Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Company, (1899). 7.5" x 5.5". Original full red cloth. With gilt titles to top board and spine. 840 pages. Some soil, rubbing to cloth. Gilt a little dulled. Elegant, contemporary gift inscription inked on front endpaper. Else clean and sound throughout.
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