Oct 01, 2009 - Sale 2188

Sale 2188 - Lot 93

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
DREISER, THEODORE. Epitaph: A Poem. Woodcut illustrations by Robert Fawcett. Thin small folio, black silk stamped in silver, spine ends and tips a bit rubbed. New York: Heron Press, (1929)

Additional Details

one of 200 copies on handmade keijyo kami paper signed by dreiser and additionally inscribed and signed by him on the half-title, dated 10 June 1930 and with cover of original mailing envelope, addressed in Dreiser's hand to same person (John Newbegin of Portland, Oregon). Curiously, a pencil line is drawn across a portion of the colophon with the words "never issued" at top, though the book was certainly produced in the limitations stated.