Notes Jay Smith (3 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. First printing. Part of The Laurel Poetry Series edited by Richard Wilbur. Moderate cover wear, including light crease to upper front cover corner and a few pen-pint pressure marks. Otherwise clean and tight.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Jay J. Smith (Cover Design) (illustrator). 624 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Occassional pen markings on text. Small tear on front cover.

Condition: Very Good+. Full dark brown morocco with embossed decoration to boards, 5 raised bands with debossed decoration and gilt particulars to spine. All edges gilt. Stated in the preface to this edition: "The whole of the sheets of the last imprint were destroyed by a fire at the bindery, wither they had been sent for collation; but fortunately the French copper-plates were in another building. This has enabled the new publishers to issue the work in a much improved style, and has allowed for opportunity for additional notes and remarks." Michaux's volumes contain 156 hand colored plates, all protected with tissue guards; and Nuttall's volumes contain 121 hand colored plates, also protected with tissue guards. Nuttall's title: "The North American Sylva. and Nova Scotia, not described in the work of F. Andrew Michaux, and containing all the forest trees discovered in the Rocky Mountains, the territory of Oregon, down to the shores of the Pacific, and into the confines of California, as well as in various parts of the United States." Firm gutters and hinges. A handsome and supple set. Foxing to frontispiece of Michaux volume 1; Sabin 48695.