Decorative Designers Binding Art (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 325 pages; 1926 Thomas Y. Crowell Company. HC/DJ. First edition. A brisk colonial-adventure novel built around James Oglethorpe and the 1742 Battle of Bloody Marsh, Britain's hard-fought check on Spanish power on Georgia's coast. Snugly bound and very neat in original tan cloth with a striking three-color decorative pictorial design by Decorative Designers, their "DD" monogram impressed within the cover design. Original color pictorial dust jacket with shallow chips at spine ends and edges, a small open snag mid-spine, and light rubbing to flap folds; faint remnants of small old tape mends at corner tips. Illustrated with 4 color plates on glossy stock from art by H. L. Hastings. Gift inscription neatly penned in German to the front endpaper, dated 1938. VG++/VG.…