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Author: Minturn, Joseph A.
Title: The American Spirit
Place: Indianapolis
Publisher: Globe Publishing
Date: [1921]
Item # : 155909
Sale Number   304
Lot Number   165
Sale Name    
Fine Americana. With the Autograph Collection of Florence S. Walter, Part II
Sale Date   03/10/2005
Sale Time   1pm PST
Low Estimate   $ 150
High Estimate   $ 250
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Description:
Illustrated from army photographs and drawings by the author. 9x6, original cloth gilt.
Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper, and with an autograph letter signed by him to the first recipient, Mrs. Fletcher Hodges, pasted in. Minturn was a widely known patent attorney; this is the story of his enlistment in WWI at the age of 55.
Condition:
Spine rubbed, light wear to edges; tape mark from laid-in obituary to front endpaper; inscription page with some other markings/stains and a little darkened, some slight damp-wrinkling; about very good.
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