PBA Galleries

[2], IX pp. (4to) 31x21.5 cm (12¼x8½") full paneled brown calf, decorative border and decoration stamped in blind, tan calf doublures, silk endleaves, top edge gilt. Original wrappers bound in. Custom calf-tipped slipcase. One of 200 copies. First Edition.

Finely bound by Belle McMurtry, with her stamp on the rear lower dentelle. McMurtry (1875-1959) was the dean of California bookbinders, and the backbone of the modern movement of hand binders. She studied under Ocavia Holden, founding director of the Bookbinder's Guild of California and was taught by the great French binders including Jules Domont, Henri Noulhac, Adolphe Cuzin, and Emile Maylander, she was a member of the Guild of Bookworkers from 1907 until at least 1947. An autograph note from the author, Witter Bynner, is laid in.