Cloth
1934 · San Francisco
by Hall, Carroll D.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California. Near Fine. 1934. Limited Edition. Cloth. Number 133 of 250 copies. Near fine with some rubbing to the corners and boards. Darkening to endpapers but text block clean and fine. Printed at the Windsor Press on lovely mould-made paper with watermarks. Navy cloth binding with paper label on spine and front panel. Illustrations and facsimiles. Introduction by Carey McWilliams ; In the 1890s, Herman Scheffauer wrote a poem, The Sea of Serenity in the style of Edgar Allan Poe. Ambrose Bierce, a notorious prankster, convinced Scheffauer to publish it in the guise of a long-lost Poe poem; Small 4to . (Inventory #: 26832)