Rare INDIAN CAPTIVITY OF O.M. SPENCER Lakeside Classics Book 1917 Very Good

Description: The Indian Captivity of O.M. Spencer from Chicago: The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1917 Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. Green cloth gilt-stamped and edges ruled, top edge gilt. Fort Washington frontispiece, folded map following page 66. No inner markings. Modest wear along the extremities, still near fine. This is the fifteenth volume in The Lakeside Classics series. This book, along with many others in my store, was from the personal collection of William Button, a representative of the Chicago branch of Harper and Brothers and President of the American Book Company until his retirement in 1916. These books have been sealed in a storage unit since 1969 and were unearthed in 2023. It is believed that his Lakeside Classics collection, which included over a dozen books, were gifts from Thomas E. Donnelley, the president of Lakeside Press. "...Lakeside Classics is a series started in 1903 that reprinted neglected classic works. Thomas E. Donnelley, then president of the company, was impressed by a set of seven razors presented to him by one of the company's suppliers, and wanted to create a gift that would similarly represent his own company's product and could not be purchased on the open market. The company did not sell the books to the public, but gave each of the company employees a copy at Christmas, making the series valued collectors items. Thomas Donnelley wrote in the introduction to Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the first volume in the series, that "If, in a modest way this volume conveys the idea that machine-made books are not a crime against art, and that books may be plain but good, and good though not costly, its mission has been accomplished."

Price: 400 USD

Location: Los Angeles, California

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