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[Boston], [1888 - 1917]. Good. 9" x 7-7/8". 50 leaves, of which 30 have been used. Stab-bound green and brown paper-covered boards, white title label on burgundy paper, burgundy paste-downs. Contains 53 clippings, plus 21 other pieces: an S. J. Parkhill & Co. business card, an insurance document for Charles L. D. Parkhill, several printed announcements and poems, a three page typed poem on the back of Parkhill letterhead, flyers, etc. Light wear; paper of front joint cracked; leaves and clippings toned and somewhat brittle, with occasional short tears and chips to edges; tears and wear to some laid in material. One leaf shows evidence of an item having been removed. A scrapbook apparently compiled by printer Charles L. D. Parkhill, the son of Samuel James Parkhill, who founded S. J. Parkhill & Co. Printers in Boston in 1875; by the 1910s, the firm was primarily known for its publication of textbooks. The scrapbook is a compilation of clippings, printed matter and a few holograph scraps affixed,… Read More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1922. First edition. About Very Good. Two volume set. 9-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. xxxii,276pp; xix,[1],308pp. Black cloth stamped in gilt to spines. Paper of both front hinges starting to split, mull intact; edgewear, with minor loss and short tears to spine ends; Vol. I spine dulled; short marginal tear to one leaf in Vol. II. SIGNED by Updike on the front endpaper, with a short notation in his hand reading, "There is more truth to be derived from error than from confusion"; dated June 3, 1924. As per the bookseller slip laid into Volume I, "Updike's own copy ... [p]urchased from Goodspeed's sale of Updike's Library", although we have not been able to independently verify this provenance.