Jones, Howard Mumford

[Signed] American Prose Style: 1700-1770

Cambridge, Massachusetts: [Harvard University Press], 1934. [Signed] American Prose Style: 1700-1770, Howard Mumford Jones, [Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts], 1934. 9 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches, 116-151.

Printed wrappers with moderate edge wear. Moisture damage along binding of wrapper and first page. Wrapper beginning to weaken at head and foot of spine. One pencil check mark noted within otherwise clean and tight. Signed and inscribed to front wrapper. Good condition.

Essay looking at American Prose Styles from 1700 to 1770 by Howard Mumford Jones. Jones was a historian, critic, journalist, poet, and professor of English at the University of Michigan and later at Harvard University. Signed and inscribed to R.F. Jones.

We've are unable to ascertain who R.F. Jones is nor whether the two Jones' were related.

Essay published in 1934 within the Huntington Library Bulletin No. 6, November 1934. Item #2358

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