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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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