THE UNBOUGHT GRACE OF LIFE and other essays.
With a foreword by Lawrence Oakley Cheever. Pp. 72, 4 plates; black cloth backed patterned papered boards with printed paper title label on spine, fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; fore and bottom edges uncut; patterned tissue wrapper, edges lightly chipped and split, backstrip browned; privately printed for the friends of May and Harry Foster at The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Christmas, 1950. First edition, limitation unspecified. *From the library of Australian bookseller and bibliophile Harry Muir, inscribed to him by Lawrence Oakley Cheever on the upper free endpaper: \lquote For Harry Muir. The meat of this little volume is not in the foreword but I hope you will read it. L. O. (Oak) Cheever, Xmas \lquote 50'. Thomas Henry Foster (1875-1951) was the President of John Morrell and Company, a meatpacking firm in Iowa. An avid book and autograph collector, his large library included numerous editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin. His essays here include A Businessman Looks at Books and Literature, and The Pleasures of Collecting Bookplates. Item #136349
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