THE MARBLE FAUN:
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, The Riverside Press, 1899.
First edition thus. Two volumes. Small 8vo. xvi, 13-253p; viii, 7-259p. Illustrated with 2 frontispieces and 46 photogravures. Bound in gilt-titled white cloth designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman with four horizontal poppies or anemones. Signed on the rear covers with Whitman's monogram. Gift inscription on flyleaf, previous ownership blotted out on the front paste-downs, all else fine and bright as new in gilt-titled red cloth chemises with slightly faded spines. Item #24519
"Is is her greatest single design." (Allen and Gullans. Decorated Cloth in America, p. 73).
Scarce in fine condition with the chemises.
Price: $400.00