One Hundred Influential American Books Printed before

[Grolier Club] One Hundred Influential American Books Printed before 1900, [presentation copy]. New York: The Grolier Club, 1947. First edition. One of 600 copies. Inscribed and signed on ffep by the three members of The Influential American Books Committee: “For F.W. Jameson/in appreciation for his generous/contribution to this exhibition/Frederick B. Adams Jr./Thomas W. Streeter/Carroll A. Wilson”. Publisher’s cloth backed boards, printed spine label. Illustrated with 7 plates of influential American books. 8vo. Faint soiling to covers; fine. Frederick Adams Jr. was an American bibliophile and the director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, privately amassing the largest holdings of works by Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost.