signed first edition
1930 · New Haven
by Quaife, Milo M.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. First Edition. Very good+ in tan cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and with black text and blue decorations on the front board. An octavo of 9 by 6 1/8 inches with light rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and a long dated gift inscription to the author, Milo Milton Quaife, on the first free end page. Without a dust jacket. The gift inscription noted above is signed by the 24 members of the "Algonuins" [Algonquin Club] to the author "who wrote this but does not own a copy." 284 pages including an index, appendix and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of James J Strang from a daguerreotype and eleven plates from photographs. The biography of James J. Strang and the eleventh work published by the Yale University Press on the Amasa Stone Mather Memorial Publication Fund.
(Inventory #: TB31713)