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14-page saddle-sewn wrapper-bound commentary by Richard Dillon (preface by James Johnson) and 12 portrait etchings loose in separate wrappers, each with tissue guard and commentary. Illustrations are of Ansel Adams, Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Henry Miller, Lincoln Steffens, John Steinbeck, George Sterling, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Edward Weston. 11¼x10¼, text and illustrations together in a drop-back cloth & morocco box. No. 24 of 125 copies designed by Susan Acker and Donald R. Fleming, printed at the Feathered Serpent Press in Monotype Bembo on Rives BFK paper.

Each etching is signed, titled and numbered in pencil below the plate by Coughlin.