Poem.
Stock Code 106652
Bryn Mawr, Privately printed by Frederic Prokosch, Christmas 1934.
Original price
$2,786.00
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Original price
$2,786.00
Original price
$2,786.00
$2,786.00
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$2,786.00
Current price
$2,786.00
Frederic Prokosch's copy. One of Prokosch's 'Butterfly Books'. Poem was first printed in the Spectator on 23 November 1934, and reprinted in The Still Centre (Faber 1939). This copy includes an original hand-coloured illustration by Prokosch signed by him in pencil and mounted as a frontispiece. In the inscription Prokosch refers to 'MS poem from the author enclosed', which is not present.
First edition thus, one of 2 copies on Imperial vellum numbered xx, from a total edition of 22, Prokosch's own copy with his signed bookplate, also signed by him on the colophon; 12mo; original hand-coloured illustration by Frederic Prokosch signed by him in pencil and mounted as frontispiece; original patterned brick red and gilt wrappers, gilt label to upper cover, with Prokosch's manuscript 'Bibliographical Note' on blue paper, preserved in blue marbled folding case and quarter morocco slipcase. A fine example.
First edition thus, one of 2 copies on Imperial vellum numbered xx, from a total edition of 22, Prokosch's own copy with his signed bookplate, also signed by him on the colophon; 12mo; original hand-coloured illustration by Frederic Prokosch signed by him in pencil and mounted as frontispiece; original patterned brick red and gilt wrappers, gilt label to upper cover, with Prokosch's manuscript 'Bibliographical Note' on blue paper, preserved in blue marbled folding case and quarter morocco slipcase. A fine example.
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