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RESEARCH MATERIALS, LOT OF 15, including "Jamestown Exposition 1907" pamphlet, published by the Jamestown Exposition Company, printed by Con. P. Curran Printing Co., St. Louis, MO, with two fold-out maps, orange paper wraps; Julia Wyatt Bullard, "Jamestown Tributes and Toasts", 1907, J.P. Bell, Lynchburg, VA, presumed first edition, signed by the author with personal inscription; Anna Cunningham Cole, "The Jamestown Princess", 1907, published for the author by Whitson & Shepherd, Portsmouth, VA, stated Souvenir Edition; "Year Book of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, for 1905-1908", 1908, Wm. Ellis Jones, Richmond; Cuyler Reynolds, ed., et al, "New York at the Jamestown Exposition", 1909, J.B. Lyon Co., Albany, NY; James Lambert, ed., et al, "Pennsylvania at the Jamestown Exposition", 1908, the Pennsylvania Commission, Philadelphia, PA; and two examples of Clarence Amonette, ed., et al, "The Critic, Volume VI, Number 9: Jamestown Number", June 1907, Lynchburg High School. Hardcover, lacking dust jackets, and soft covers.
<i>Good to very good condition overall, expected wear and some stains/discoloration to boards/covers, most hardcovers with bumped/worn corners, "The Jamestown Princess" with some heavier water stains to front board and endpapers, interiors generally very clean, with expected minor toning, some with scattering minor stains or foxing, one "The Critic" example with tear to spine, one undescribed periodical example rebound.</i>
Provenance: From the research library of Ivor Noel Hume, O.B.E., F.S.A., Williamsburg, VA.
Catalogue Note: Ivor Noel Hume (1927-2017), O.B.E. (Order of the British Empire), F.S.A. (Fellow, Society of Antiquaries), was a distinguished scholar, author, and former director of the Department of Archaeological Research at Colonial Williamsburg.
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