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Edwin Markham The Man With The Hoe. Written After Seeing Millet's World-Famous Painting
San Francisco, CA Book Club of California 1916 First Edition, thus Hardcover Collectible: Very Good Hardcover Ray F. Coyle
LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies, this is number 131, Printed by John Henry Nash, handset in Original Old Style Italic and Caslon Old Style on hand-made paper. 4to. 11 3/16 x 7 13/16 inches. [12] pp. The text throughout is printed with blue rules and within an elaborate Art Deco border, frontispiece portrait of Markham, title-page fleuron and initials in the text printed in red ink, "Comment On the Poem" by Markham, portrait and decorations by Ray F. Coyle; text clean, un-marked. Beige linen spine, blue paper over boards, printed paper spine label; binding square and tight, extremities faded, some foxing on the edges of the pages. Included is a single sheet of paper, folded with printing on one page from Edwin Markham to Albert Bender requesting that one word in the last line of the second stanza of the text be changed; this sheet has some foxing. Very Good. Originally issued with a photograph by Gabriel Moulin of Millet's painting within a sepia folder; this photograph and folder is missing from this copy. This copy has one of two printed letters from Edwin Markham to Albert Bender, but not the printed letter giving permission to the Club to print the poem. Reference: Magee: The Hundredth Book, No. 2.
Price:
30.00 USD
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