quarter-cloth with paper-covered boards
1997 · (New York
by Wagner, Margaret E. (editor)
(New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. quarter-cloth with paper-covered boards. large 8vo. quarter-cloth with paper-covered boards. 176 pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket, rubbing to spine, else a good copy. Foreword by James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress. Introduction by Garry Wills. This book gathers seventy-six of the Library's representative American treasures including the first American photograph of the human face (1839), the laboratory notebooks of Alexander Graham Bell, musical scores by George Gershwin and John Philip Sousa, one of the earliest baseball cards ever produced (1865), and more. Handsomely illustrated with photographs (truncated)