Rare Americana, Comprising Almanacs, Early Juvenilia and Text-books, Newspapers, Colonial and Revolutionary Broadsides, Periodicals, Revolutionary Orderly Books, Indian Narratives and History, Negro Literature, Rare Connecticut and Rhode Island Tracts and Broadsides, Narratives and History of California and the West...


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"In the following catalogue an attempt is made to describe a collection of which the nucleus was formed by Samuel Elam, of Vancluse, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, a cultured student of American history: Colonial, Revolutionary and local, and of the history and literature of the Negro race."--Note.




Library Journal


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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Issued also separately.




The Publishers Weekly


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Library Journal


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Catalogue of Rare Books


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The Bibliographer


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