(R B Adam). ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM THE LIBRARY OF
MR. R. B. ADAM, BUFFALO, N.Y. TO BE SOLD BY HIS ORDER. New York: The
Anderson Galleries, February 15 & 16, 1926. 433 lots. Frontis., text
illus. 8vo. Original flexible pebble cloth, spine stamped in gilt, original
wrappers bound in as issued (see below).
Lathrop
Harper's copy, inscribed "For Lathrop, the kindest and best, E. Byrne
Hackett." Signed by twenty-five
bookmen during the pre-auction dinner party hosted by A. Edward Newton for the
highly respected collector, R.B. Adam--one of the most famous such gatherings
in the history of American book collecting.
Signers include Ralph Isham, Seymour de Ricci, Barnet J. Beyer, Jerome
Kern, Louis B. Shaw (?), A.S.W.
Rosenbach, Owen D. Young, William Jay Turner, James F. Drake, Charles S.
Osgood, Lathrop Harper, Walter M. Hill, Gabriel Wells, Carl Pforzheimer,
Christopher Morley, E. Swift Newton, Chauncey Brewster Tinker, R.B. Adam, A.
Edward Newton, Mitchell Kennerley, Edgar H. Wells, George H. Sargent, and E.
Byrne Hackett.
