Of Brooks & books / by Lee Edmonds Grove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grove, Lee Edmonds, 1909-1971, author.

Contributor:

University of Minnesota. Press, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brooks, Edmund D. (Edmund DeWitt), 1866-1919.

Brooks, Edmund D.

Booksellers and bookselling--Minnesota--Minneapolis.

Booksellers and bookselling.

Minnesota--Minneapolis.

Genre:

Limitation statements (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix, [1], 85, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1945]

Summary:

The author began his search for books published by Brooks after finding a handsomely made volume that was privately printed for him. Brooks' career as Minnesota's greatest bookseller forms a facinating and little-known chapter of the state's cultural history.

Notes:

"1500 copies have been printed"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has dust jacket. Also a printed E-Mail laid in. This is copy 434.

OCLC:

2224122