Enjoy! I have both the Hager (without dust cover) and Erbe books, and they pale in comparison to Lew Lipset's encyclopedia in terms of pre-war research value. Rhett is right, when Hager's first came out it had nice photos of some of the sets; however, it was replete with horrible spelling and grammar. Seriously, pay a 5th grader to edit it. The pricing was at the time more than outlandish, and the boasts about the number of some issues he handled was a crock. Still, I never regretted buying it.
If you have a chance to get the Lipset three-volume set rolled into one you will not be disappointed. I turn to it frequently, even this past weekend. Here is a shot of my third version-- one worn to pieces and the other used for hand-written notes:
Buying the volumes separately is also not a bad idea-- I have a set of those as well.
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