Lark Book, Signed (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. Darrell K. Sweet, dj art (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s). This book in pictorial wraps is an Uncorrected Page Proofs of the first 68 pages of the Paperback Original. Signed by Mercedes Lackey inside the front cover.

1st Edition. First edition, Second Issue, with the Doxey Imprint. Illustrations and cover designs by Florence Lundborg, Gelett Burgess, Ernest Peixotto, Hervert Van Vlack, Newton Tharp, Reginald Rix, Willis Polk and Bruce Porter. 2 vols. Sm. 4to. Contains Burgess' famous doggerel "Purple Cow" in the first issue and his slightly less famous disownment in the last ("Ah, yes, I wrote the 'Purple Cow' / I'm sorry, now, I wrote it; / But I can tell you Anyhow / I'll kill you if you Quote it!"). A fine copy of a set prone to grubby bindings and torn pages. This copy further distinguished by the signatures, in both volumes, of Gelett Burgess, Carolyn Wells and Ernest Peixotto. Original illustrated brown cloth binding. Fine. Chinese bamboo paper. Epilark title page torn with some loss Illustrations and cover designs by Florence Lundborg, Gelett Burgess, Ernest Peixotto, Hervert Van Vlack, Newton Tharp, Reginald Rix, Willis Polk and Bruce Porter. 2 vols. Sm. 4to First edition, Second Issue, with the Doxey Imprint. Signed.