first edition Hard Cover
by John Cranmer Cook
John Cranmer Cook. Privately Printed. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. A clean copy of a silk bound book of original verse, hand written and privately printed by the John Cranmer Cook, a native of Springfield, Illinois and son of Union Brigadier General John Pope Cook. Christmas card in the author's hand is tipped in to the final leaf -- perhaps a unique Christmas gift to a special family member. Includes a frontispiece and two tipped in photographs of the author, as well as six additional printed photographs bound in. The fragile silk spine has been repaired with small amounts of loss. There is minor wear, but the binding is still quite beautiful in blue and yellow, floral patterned silk covers. Patterned yellow endpapers and slight loss to the front endpaper. Laid in is a disbound booklet with a separate handwritten poem by the same author. The booklet's covers are patterned white and blue paper, originally bound with the Japanese stab method. near Very Good binding.
(Inventory #: 282531)