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THE COMPROMISE OF THE KING OF THE GOLDEN ISLES.
Dunsany, Lord

   

- New York : The Grolier Club 1924
- 4to.
- cloth- backed boards.
- 26 pages.
- Order Nr. 27881
- Price: $ 50.00



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First edition, limited to 300 copies (Asaf 80). Designed and printed by T.M. Cleland including a color title page illustration. This is one of the six books done by eminent American printers at the request of the Grolier Club to demonstrate advances in American typography. Minor rubbing along edges. Small booklabel on front pastedown from the typographic library of Joseph Francis Weiler.

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