THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Wear to spine, mostly at tips and along front edge, with some loss; contents clean. Near Very Good in a Very Good slipcase. Zhenya Gay. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11") bound in full granite-gray sheepskin leather embossed to resemble a jail cell wall; 76 pages. Copy #473 of 1500 illustrated with 8 full-page ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS by Zhenya Gay and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. One of the more unusual bindings of the press.