THE COUNTRY BOY

New York: The H. K. Fly Company, (1911). An octavo, 307 pp., bound in cobalt blue cloth with an extaordinary Art Nouveau pictorial cover of a songbird in the branches of a flowering tree against a bright gilt sky. Titles on cover and spine also gilt. This sentimental novel was written by Charles Server from the play by Edgar Selwyn. The back cover and spine have some light spotting noticed only when the book is turned into certain lights. A whisper of wear at the extremites, else this is a brilliant copy of an exceptional publisher's binding of the Arts and Crafts period of design.