first edition
1927 · New York
by Edgar Lee Masters
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First Edition. Octavo (20 cm); 288pp. Boards in black cloth with gilt stamping and pictorial decoration at front, wrapped in publisher's pictorial yellow jacket with higher-priced sticker over original price ($2.50). Fore-edge deckled. Jacket generally scuffed, rubbed, and dust soiled with minor surface scratches and darkened spine and joints. Board extremities bumped with minor shelf wear. Previous owner name in pen at first free endsheet and finger smudges to half title, otherwise pages clean. A Very Good or better copy in like jacket of a mid-career (truncated)
