Books, like sheep, are wont to stray from their masters. If this little book has wandered into your green pastures, please treat it kindly, read it leisurely, and, when it has stayed its welcome, help it find its way back home! [Mrs.] Norton Clapp | Mrs. Norton Clapp

Books, like sheep, are wont to stray from their masters. If this little book has wandered into your green pastures, please treat it kindly, read it leisurely, and, when it has stayed its welcome, help it find its way back home! [Mrs.] Norton Clapp | Mrs. Norton Clapp

Bookplates | Clapp, Norton, 1906-1995 | Bookplates, American--Washington (State)--Seattle

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States: "Books, like sheep, are wont to stray from their masters. If this little book has wandered into your green pastures, please treat it kindly, read it leisurely, and, when it has stayed its welcome, help it find its way back home! [Mrs.] Norton Clapp"; single-lined border. Personal bookplate for Norton Clapp, appended with "Mrs." Norton Clapp was a Seattle area businessman, notably president of Weyerhauser and one of the original investors in the Space Needle. As he had several wives, through deaths and divorce, it is unclear to which wife this book belonged.

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