Matheson Murdock (3 results)

1960. (Mass market paperback) Very good plus. 162pp. Photographs of Matheson dated 1907 and 1957 laid in. SIGNED. Unbound research or reading copy available for $20.00. Longtime teacher (from 1907) and University professor (to 1946) in Saskatchewan.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed, presentation copy of the First Edition (Preface dated Feb. 1960). Frontispiece, xiii, 80 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, without dust jacket (probably as issued). Inscribed on flyleaf to Margaret Graham, whose signature is also on the flyleaf. A signed, presentation card to Graham, dated May 5, 1960, is laid in. An obscure book: a Google search for "Matheson Arbuthnot" yields 907 links, yet only the first, to the Arbuthnot Family Association site, pertains to the actual book. If it is the family and not only John Arbuthnot who is of interest then I highly recommend this site. In fact, through Google I now also see that 'The virtual buecherregal North-Rhine/Westphalia, a friendly offer of the university library center of the country North Rhine-Westphalia (HBZ)' locates copies in two libraries within what I suppose is its network. So you can find it there, too. For the purposes of biographical information, it's useful that ABE colleague Richard Spafford, of Regina, is offering a signed copy of 'Looking Backward Over My Fifty Years in Saskatchewan', a 162-page autobiography of sorts by one whom Spafford reports was a 'longtime teacher (from 1907) and University professor (to 1946) in Saskatchewan.' I'm confident he, above just about all other booksellers, would know. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: very good. no dustjacket. 12mo pp.162. Inscribed by the author on the FFEP. Lightly foxed to top and fore-edge. book.