Full black cloth with illustrated paper label on front cover.
1989] · [Los Angeles:
by [ Ritchie, Ward ]
[Los Angeles: Printed for Dawson's Book Shop at Laguna Verde Imprenta by the author, 1989] One of fifty copies. . Full black cloth with illustrated paper label on front cover. . Miniature, 2 15/16 x 2 1/4. llustrated with twenty-three wood engravings by Paul Landacre, some two per page. Two of the engravings are printed in green, two in red, and the remainder in black and white. Miniature printed bookplate on front pastedown. A fine copy. This book, which sold out shortly after publication, features two of Ritchie's poems, written in his youth, under the pseudonym of Peter Lum Quince. "…it [seemed] appropriate to join once again Landacre with a couple of poems by his old friend." The dedication is to Gloria Stuart, longtime film actress and letterpress printer, who was Ritchie's longtime companion.
(Inventory #: 15864)