Accession number
PML 188137
Creator
Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-1997.
Published
Rutland, Vt ; Tokyo, Japan : Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
Color prints are mounted.
"First printing, 1959"--Title page verso.
"Special, boxed edition, limited to nineteen copies, for presentation by the author to his friends. Copy No. ... gratefully presented to ..."--Colophon on clamshell box.
Library's copy is no. 3.
"First printing, 1959"--Title page verso.
"Special, boxed edition, limited to nineteen copies, for presentation by the author to his friends. Copy No. ... gratefully presented to ..."--Colophon on clamshell box.
Library's copy is no. 3.
Description
287 pages : illustrations (part mounted color) ; 32 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink below colophon on clamshell box: Helen Strauss, who sees to it that books liked this get published. Jim Michener.
Provenance
Inscribed to Helen Strauss; Carter Burden.
Binding
3/4 light tan cloth over light red silk with decoration of a Japanese woman in blind; stamped in gilt and black on spine; in pictorial dust jacket with illustration of author on rear flap. Housed in olive green extensilvely decorated clamshell box with printed paper label and bone closures as issued.
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