Essentials

by Jean Toomer

$1,350 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Chicago: Private Edition, 1931. First edition; published at the Lakeside Press. Copy number 179 of a limited 1,000 numbered copies signed by Jean Toomer; of these 1,000 copies, those distributed upon publication were numbered and signed, and after his death the remaining copies turned up unnumbered and unsigned. Bound in publisher's black paper-covered boards with two-tone blue paper title label to upper board and spine.

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