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- ID
- cx126
- Title
- "Preface" [to A Check-List of First Editions]
- Genre
- Essay
- Page Count
- 2
- Word Count
- 1000
- Publisher
- Casanova
- Publication Year
- 1934
- Document Types
- Full-text Online
- Autobiographical
- Eads, Additions to
- Introductions, Forewards & Prefaces
- Topics
- Literary Life
Bates relates his early experiences of dealing with American requests for his autograph, and then extols the value of collecting literary manuscripts rather than first editions.
In A Check-List of First Editions (Milwaukee: Casanova, 1934, pp. 3-4, attached)
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