The Personal Reading Library of Robert Sterling Clark

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The Personal Reading Library of Robert Sterling Clark

1707-1961

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The Robert Sterling Clark reading library is comprised of ca. 800 titles that document a broad range of interests. Fiction and history predominate, though there is significant subject development in cookery and horses. The collection includes multiple volumes by a number of authors, including substantive first edition holdings of Pearl S. Buck, John Galsworthy, Sinclair Lewis, and P. G. Wodehouse. Many of the volumes include minor penciled annotations by RSC which record reading dates and brief thoughts on the volume in hand.

113.5 Linear feet

eng, Latn

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, The Clark

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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, The Clark

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