MERWIN, SAMUEL — Old Concord: Seen Through Western Spectacles
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over light blue boards, black lettering and Minuteman medallion on cover. Illustrated with woodcuts. NB: Samuel Merwin, Sr. (1874 – 1936) was an American writer, novelist, and playwright. Merwin was born in Evanston, Illinois, where his father was the postmaster. After attending Northwestern University, he worked between 1905 and 1911 as associate editor and then editor of Success magazine. In 1907, the magazine sent him to China to investigate the China's opium trade. He was the author of numerous novels, plays, and histories between 1899 and his death in 1936.. Edges of cover lightly sunned, else as new; unmarked, tight, square, supple, and clean. NEAR FINE.. Woodblock Prints. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. 32 pages. Near Fine in No DJ As Issued dust jacket .
