Published by The Plimpton Press, [unknown], 1940
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Full Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Issued in full heavy cloth with paper label on the front cover, original glassene dust jacket is present and complete with only small chips at the extremities. Previous owner's stamped name on the endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1925
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition of the large paper version. Small quarto. Illustrated. Pages unopened, board edges rubbed and bumped, binding sunned and lightly soiled, very good. One of five hundred copies printed on Borzoi all rag paper. Contributions by Edwin Bjorkman, Willa Cather, A.E. Coppard, William Cummings, D.H. Lawrence, H.L. Mencken, James Oppenheim, Carl Van Doren, Carl Van Vechten, and others.
Published by Privately printed at The Plimpton Press, 1940
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Inscribed by Alfred A. Knopf to his future wife Helen Hedrick on the ffep. Boards in green cloth. The paper title labels on the spine and front cover are soiled. Spine faded. A few pages show soiling. Frontispiece portrait of AAK by Carl Van Vechten. Designed by W. A. Dwiggins. pp. 52, [1]. A tribute to Alfred A. Knopf and his friends, from fellow-members of The Book Table, including contributions from Carl Van Doren, Willa Cather, H. L. Mencken, Thomas Mann, Henry Seidel Canby, H. M. Lydenberg, Adolf Kroch, and F. G. Melcher. Inscribed ''For Helen Hedrick / who ornaments the Borzoi / & in the hope that she / will have the success / she deserves. / From her friend / AAK''. Not long after the issue of this quarter century tribute, Knopf published Hedrik's now scarce novel, The Blood Remembers (1941). Hedrick, a resident of southern Oregon, married Knopf on April 20, 1967, becoming his second wife.