Mliss

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1948 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. One of 300 copies printed with hand-set Goudy Modern type. Small folio. 50pp. Initials and 4 full-page illustrations in color, engraved by Mallette Dean. Bibliography. Half red linen and decorated boards, printed paper spine label. Spine ever so slightly faded, but a very fine copy. Mliss was first published in 1870 as part of "The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches." The full-page color illustrations by Mallette Dean were inspired by mid-Victorian American primitives, and printed from various materials including textiles, sand paper, leather and linoleum. A handsome publication. Included in the Exhibition of Western Books (Rounce & Coffin Club). [Grabhorn: 456]..