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Johnson, Allen, and Dumas Malone [editors]. DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Author's Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937–1944. First printing. Twenty-two volumes, including the index and first supplemental volume. 8vo [25 by 18 cm], original black cloth elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt; top page edges gilt. Well over 10,000 pages. Fine or nearly so. No. 242 of 500 subscription sets, first volume signed by Dumas Malone. Underwritten by the New York Times Company, "through a subvention of more than $500,000," and written under the supervision of the American Council of Learned Societies, this monumental work remains of considerable use to researchers in American history and numismatics. Nearly all sets available on the secondary market are ex-library copies: this is not. Kolbe 491. Ex George F. Kolbe Library.