Cyrano De Bergerac **RARE EARLY PICTORIAL JACKET MODERN LIBRARY EDITION**

RARE EARLY PICTORIAL JACKET MODERN LIBRARY EDITION Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. New York: The Modern Library, 1929 . This is a very attractive copy of one of the first early pictorial dust jacketed Modern Library titles. Bound in purple balloon cloth (spine #5). Very short-lived binding style, in use 1929 - Spring 1930. This gold-heavy design was planned before the 1929 crash, and was quickly deemed too expensive for Depression-era book publishing. The gold torchbearer was replaced with a blindstamped torchbearer, and in 1930, the gold tree was dropped. The book is FINE. Solid binding, very bright gilt, bright matching purple topstain. Contents are very clean with no writing in text. GORGEOUS! APPEARS UNREAD AND UNOPENED. The dust jacket is VERY GOOD - slight chipping on top and bottom spine and one chip on back, spine slightly soiled. Otherwise extremely clean and bright! The back of the dust jacket lists 158 titles matching a 1929 printing. 95 cent price present and bright on inside flap. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. SUPER RARE EARLY PICTORIAL DUST JACKET. Here are the characteristics of these earliest pictorial jackets, followed by all known examples: spine printing was horizontal, no logo on front or spine, dual numbers or no numbers on spine, no horizontal bars on front, image enclosed within a square, HARD TO FIND MODERN LIBRARY EDITION IN THIS DUST JACKET! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.…