Language: English
Published by NMS Enterprises Limited - Publishing, 2011
ISBN 10: 1905267541 ISBN 13: 9781905267545
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Published by Printed for private distribution - Mound City Press, 1938
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover. Worn at spine ends; cloth scuffed; top corner bumped. Sticker ghost and minor mark on ffep. A little soiling on a few pages; else generally clean. A few leaves roughly opened. Illustrated wth eight portraits of the current and former club presidents, plus a frontispiece, all on plates with tissue guards.124, [1] pages. Two copies noted on OCLC (Oxford; Nat. Lib. of Scotland). Includes notes about the club's history, its presidents, and a few other prominent members; summaries of meeting minutes 1932-1938; and Burns Night addresses that were given by Alexander Buchan (Washington University), John DeLancey Ferguson (then at Northwestern), Donald Mackenzie (Princeton), J. Duncan Cameron, and Thomas S. Duncan (Washington University). The Burns Club of St. Louis was founded in 1908 by William K. Bixby, industrialist, art collector, former president of Washington University, and backer of Charles Lindburgh's transatlantic flight. He served as its president until 1931.