The Memorial Quadrangle: A Book About Yale by French, Robert Dudley - 1930: - Including Biographies of Forty-three Eminent Yale Men written by various hands

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1930. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Stated Second Printing in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with bright gold lettering on cover and spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Previous owner name and date neatly penned on front fixed endpaper; blue and white rendering of the coat of arms of the Yale Graduate School and information about it neatly taped to front free endpaper. Frontispiece illustration with clean tissue guard (photo of Harkness Tower). Illustrated with many lovely black and white plates with tissue guards. 459 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped, has edge chipping, slight age-toning. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.

A beautiful book of interest to Yale students and graduates, but also a book to appeal to the intelligent general reader with a sense of the cultural historic background of the United States. Typographically beautiful, the book was selcted by the American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the "Fifty Books of 1929."