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Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth with extensive wraparound black, green and brown pictorial stamping. 375pp. Numerous illustrations (1 tipped-in color, 2 foldouts). Fine. First edition of the third volume of the "New Colophon," a continuation of the original "Colophon" begun in 1928. Among the "Who's Who" of bookish folk who contribute these 32 essays on a huge range of bookish topics are Randolph G. Adams, Jacob Blanck, Jean Hersholt, Philip Hofer, Vincent Starrett, and John T. Winterich. Best of all, this lovely copy bears a meaty Typed Letter Signed from contributor Boyd B. Stutler (1889-1970), a preeminent West Virginia scholar of John Brown and the Civil War, tipped in facing the title page -- a unique frontispiece of sorts. (Stutler's article "The Transformations of "Young Kate" appears on pages 222-27.) 1p, 8½" X 11", Charleston, WV, 24 March 1969. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates (1914-93, noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar). Near fine. Two original folds. On his imprinted letterhead, Stutler fills this page with meaty, detailed, single-space content chock full of typos (which he corrects in ink). Stutler gossips about Civil War-related things, the journal "Civil War History" and "Lincoln Herald." The subject of his main renown, John Brown, comes up too: "The city of Kent [Ohio], as you know, is John Brown's old Franklin Mills, where he went broke promoting an addition to it. In that instance he was just forty years ahead of his time." And later: "Today comes a letter from a publisher at Weston, Massachusetts, who says he is reprinting John Brown's Constitution, with introductory notes, and asked permission to use my article, 'John Brown's Constitution,' published in Lincoln Herald in the December 1948 number. Of course I am pleased to tell him to use any or all of the screed." Also discusses an upcoming reprint of his 1926 article on the Kinnan Indian massacre. A superb content letter, signed simply "Boyd" in black ballpoint.