Accession number
PML 187881
Creator
Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.
Published
San Francisco : Colt Press, 1942.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First edition, signed issue. Cf. Publisher's prospectus..
Verse and prose.
"... twenty-one unbound, signed copies of the above title were discovered. Although this signed edition was advertised on the jacket of the trade edition--none of the principals can recall if any were ever bound or sold -- there are no such copies in their collections. So it is reasonably certain that up to now this edition has been truly hors commerce"--Publisher's prospectus.
Verse and prose.
"... twenty-one unbound, signed copies of the above title were discovered. Although this signed edition was advertised on the jacket of the trade edition--none of the principals can recall if any were ever bound or sold -- there are no such copies in their collections. So it is reasonably certain that up to now this edition has been truly hors commerce"--Publisher's prospectus.
Description
112, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's signature in ink on title page.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Periwinkle and blue decorated boards backed in black morocco, stamped in gilt on spine.
Classification
Catalog link
Department