The Development of Harvard University since the Inauguration of President Eliot 1869-1929
by Morison, Samuel Eliot - editor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large Thick Octavo. xc + 660 pp, inked name & year at top of t.p., more than 70 b&w photographs (includes Henry Adams, George Lyman Kittredge, Asa Gray, Alexander Aggassiz, the history club, & many more) preface, Introduction, about 40 essays on the various departments of instruction & the professor scholars in the university by professors in the various fields, index. 6.25" x 9.5" deep red cloth boards x 2" thick, gilt spine letters,. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, paper well-preserved. gilt top edge. light wear to spine cloth top/tail tips and foreedge tips. .
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009191
- Title
- The Development of Harvard University since the Inauguration of President Eliot 1869-1929
- Author
- Morison, Samuel Eliot - editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- Large Thick Octavo
- Keywords
- History of Harvard University - late 19th century - early 20th century
- Bookseller catalogs
- EDUCATION; U. S. HISTORY;
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
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