Munn, James Buell (1890-1967) Collection

(Rare Books & Manuscripts) A scholarly gathering of 25,000 volumes collected by this eminent Professor of English at Harvard University. This collection has strong holdings in Biblical literature, poetry, 18th- and 19th-century French literature, and 20th-century first editions, such as Ernest Hemingway and T. S. Eliot. Much of the collection has been dispersed in the Library stacks and can be found in the Research Library Catalogs, with the first editions and rare items (2,200 volumes) housed in the Rare Books Department.