first edition Hardcover
1942 · Chicago
by Wolfe, Thomas
Chicago: Privately printed; Norman Press, 1942. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First thus edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 30 pages of text. Original maroon hardcover binding with minor sunning to the spine and minor shelfwear. The unclipped dustjacket has tiny chips at the spine extremities, minor darkening of the spine, and slight shelfwear and soiling; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated with three color illustrations by Joseph Trautwein. From the colophon "A limited edition has been printed at the Norman Press on Linweave Early American paper. Bound by the John F. Cuneo Company in Holliston's Zepplin cloth...conceived as a project by a class in Typography and Design conducted at the Harrison Commerical Art Institute [Chicago]...The text is clean and unmarked. Text selected and excerpted from Wolfe's "Of Time and the River." First separate edition..
(Inventory #: 014638)