Dictionary of American History [Six Volumes]

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition. Blue cloth with gilt titles. A very good set, top edge dusty, some rubbing and blind stamp to title on volume 1, a few rear leaves roughly opened on index.. xi, 444; 430; 432; 512; 515; 258 pp. Sm. 4to. R.V. Coleman, ed. Signed by Allan Nevins, one of the advisors, on the third volume. Allan Nevins would later title his biography of Adams: "James Truslow Adams: Historian of the American Dream". Provenance: Samuel Flagg Bemis (Yale historian and two time Pulitzer Prize winner), his blind stamp on title page of volume 1.