An Invocation

Ambrose Bierce; George Sterling (introd.); Oscar Lewis (explanation)

Published by Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1928

About this Item

xvi, 13 pp., 4to, edges untrimmed, marbled cloth, leather title label. Printed on French Perrigot handmade paper by John Henry Nash. No. 147 of 300 copies. "An Invocation" was a poem read as part of the Fourth of July program in San Francisco, July 4, 1888. Laid in is the eight-page prospectus with an order card, its mailing envelope, and Book Club of California (BCC) mailing label addressed to John W. Hancock of Roanoke, Virginia. With the bookplate of John W. Hancock (1870-1960), whose son founded the Roanoke Electric Steel Corp. Also laid in is a TLS on BCC letterhead from Oscar Lewis, club secretary, soliciting Hancock's interest in BCC membership. Good copy; contents fine, cover edges a bit rubbed in areas (mostly at the upper hinge), upper corner bumped; pp. 2-3 of prospectus show offsetting from the order card mailing envelope. BCC The Hundredth Book 32; AIGA Fifty Books of the Year (1929). Seller Inventory # 5495

Bibliographic Details

Title: An Invocation

Publisher: Book Club of California, San Francisco

Publication Date: 1928

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good