Continent's Gold: An Anthology of Contemporary Poets

San Francisco: Printed for the Book Club of California by John Henry Nash, 1925. 1/600 copies. 237pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/2 vellum over brown boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Marbled endsheets and pastedowns. Very good. Ownership stamp on the front free endsheet. This edition was limited to 600 numbered copies, this is copy 149. John Henry Nash (1871-1947) was a renowned fine printer who spent the majority of his career in the San Francisco area, founding the Twentieth Century Press with Bruce Brough, which was renamed Tomoye Press when Paul Elder was made a partner. Later Nash founded his own eponymous printing venture, this is where he cemented legacy as one of the great American printers. Later in his life he would teach printing and typography at the University of Oregon.