New York, New Haven, and Princeton: Edmond Byrne Hackett: The Brick Row Book Shop, Inc., 1922.
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Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 195pp. Frontispiece, illustrated. Quarter cloth and pale blue papercovered boards with printed spine label. One of 1500 copies. A little light rubbing on the label, else a handsome and fine copy. The Dedication Copy, Inscribed by Minnigerode to longtime Yale professor William Lyon Phelps, utilizing the printed dedication: "Respectfully dedicated, and Affectionately inscribed [To William Lyon Phelps] by a pupil of 1910, Meade Minnigerode. December 8, 1922." "To William Lyon Phelps" is printed, the rest is in the hand of Minnigerode. Minnigerode was the founder of The Whiffenpoofs and composer of their towering anthem, *The Whiffenpoof Song* ("We are poor little lambs who have gone astray, Baa, Baa, Baa...").
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