Published by William Kimber 1956, 1956
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
first edition, super octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus, 201pp+7pp ads, VG- (slight bruising to spine extrems & board corners, moderate rubbing with slight surface loss; light foxing & tanning to eps and page edges, particularly top edge; slightly cocked) in d/w, scruffy (dark tanning, moderate rubbing & soiling, bruising with small open tears to edges, particularly top of spine).
Published by Cambridge, MA: Stone & Kimball, [1893]., 1893
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. 8vo. [223 pp.]. Very Good. Hard Covers. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Deckled pages, fine. Binding tight. The first bound volume published by Stone & Kimball. The first book by Stone & Kimball, written by one of the co-publishers. They started this highly influential firm while they were still students at Harvard. Woodcut ornament at head of page one.From the collection of the late Frederick G.Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.