Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 243

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(PENNYROYAL PRESS / MOSER, BARRY.) Twelve American Writers. Wood engraved portraits of Cooper, Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Melville, Crane, Twain, Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck. 8vo, brown morocco gilt by the Thistle Bindery; 1/4 gilt-lettered matching leather clamshell case; original prospectus broadside laid in. Easthampton, 1974

Additional Details

number 6 of only 50 copies, this being a patron's copy and one of only 10 bound in full leather, and with a suite of extra prints signed by moser laid into a separate folder. This copy for patron William Fletcher. Printed by Moser for Dwyer & Cronin Booksellers, Amherst, it is the first commissioned book of the Pennyroyal Press.