Accession number
PML 186382
Creator
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950.
Published
New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, 1927.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
"This edition of The King's Henchman ... is limited to thirty-one copies on Shidzuoka imperial Japan vellum of which twenty-six copies lettered from A-Z are for sale and the remaining five unlettered copies for private distribution. Each copy of this edition if signed by the author and contains in addition a signed artist's proof on Japanese tissue of an original woodcut by Harry Cimino"--Preliminary leaf [3].
Library's copy is unlettered.
Library's copy is unlettered.
Description
131, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's signature in ink on preliminary leaf [3] as issued; illustrator's signature in graphite on frontispiece as issued; author's inscription in ink on front flyleaf: To Joan Tayen, on the occasion of the first performance of "The King's Henchman" by the Metropolitan Opera Company, February 17, 1927, from Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dear Joan, your hands are far too little to hold this book. But someday, when you are older, please read it, and maybe then your father and mother will tell you all about the day I gave it to you.
Provenance
Signed to Joan Tayen; Carter Burden.
Binding
Decorated boards backed in white cloth with decorated endpapers and tissue guard, in slipcase as issued.
Classification
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