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Dow, Sterling. FIFTY YEARS OF SATHERS: The Sather Professorship of Classical Literature in the University of California, Berkeley, 1913/4-1963/4. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1965. First Edition



First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Tipped-in frontispiece portrait of Mrs. Jane Krom (Read) Sather. The history of the classical professorship created by Jane K. Sather, includes information on lectures and publications, and a chronological list of the Sather Professors. Index. vi, 70 pp plus 14 plates of photographs, mostly of the professors but also one of Phoebe Apperson Hearst. Letter from Martin Myerson, acting chancellor of Berkeley laid in. Very near fine in a stiff dark blue wrappers with self flaps. .

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