The Bastard Inscribed to Richard Johns

by Erskine Caldwell, Ty Mahon

$250 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

New York: Heron Press Incorporated, 1929. First Edition. One of 900 numbered copies on Mellow Book, bound in Holliston Cloth of a total edition of 1100 . Inscribed on front free endpaper to American poet and editor Richard Johns. Octavo 25.5cm. ; original purple gilt-lettered cloth; 199pp.; frontispiece and 5 plates; title page printed within purple decorative border. Unprinted acetate

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