FRED A. TORRANCE: HIS LIFE, TIMES, AND PHILOSOPHY, INCLUDING HIS EARLY ARTICLES ON THE TOWN OF JAY, 1878-1948. N.p. [Isabelle Torrance, 1982]. Large octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-117 [118: blank], illustrations, maps, red cloth stamped in gold. First edition? A presentation copy with signed inscription by Robert A. Torrance and editor Isabelle Torrance to the Brewster Library dated 27 July 1982. Apparently, there is another version of this book which we have not seen that states "first edition," has a dust jacket, and has the imprint: The Prout Printers, Inc., Troy, New York. Tiny label of the Essex County Historical Society, Elizabethtown, NY affixed to the lower fore-edge corner of the front paste-down. A fine copy; no dust jacket (as issued?). (#163883).
Price: $100.00
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