His Powner's, "the house of a million books" ... 1925.

Marvelous journey, 1971: title page (Samuel Putnam)

Wikipedia, October 21, 2015: (Samuel Putnam; born October 10, 1892 in Rossville, Illinois, died January 15, 1950 in Lambertville, New Jersey; American translator and scholar of Romance languages) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Putnam

ancestry.com, 2 Oct. 2017 (Samuel Earl Whitehall Putnam; b. 10 Oct. 1892 in Rossville, IL; d. 15 Jan. 1950)

NUC pre-56 (Putnam, Samuel, 1892-1950; usage: Samuel Putnam; lccn 48-7154: "Full name: Samuel Whitehall Putnam")

OCLC, Oct. 2, 2017 (hdg.: Putnam, Samuel, 1892-1950; Putnam, Samuel Whitehall; usage: Samuel Putnam)