34 pages; Chicago: Near Fine. 1941. First Edition Thus. 34 pages; Limited edition of only 200 copies designed by Suzette Hamill printed for Pocahontas Press by The Monastery Hill Press, Chicago 1941. Clean and secure in original binding of glossy black boards with hand coloured illustration mounted to front board, and additional decorations by Nicolas (Nicolai) Remisoff; top edges gilt. The author Alfred Ernest Hamill was a Chicago book collector, philanthropist, and president of the Newberry Library Board of Trustees, 1929-1953. Born in Chicago in 1883, Hamill graduated from Yale University in 1905 and resided in Lake Forest, Illinois, where he established the Centaur Press. He bequeathed his calligraphy collection and gypsy lore materials to the Newberry Library. The illustrator Nicolas (Nicolai) Remisoff was a Russian painter, illustrator, and production designer with a distinctive art deco style who designed covers for Vanity Fair and Vogue. Before the 1917 Revolution he was the leading artist in Russian satirical magazines Strekoza and Satirikon, in which he published his cartoons under the pseudonym Re-Mi. Remisoff also was an art director in American cinema and worked on 31 films, including Of Mice and Men (1939) and Ocean's Eleven (1960) . . ; Literature, Poetry, Most Recent Listing.

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Title: This Last Devotion
Publisher: Pocahontas Press, Chicago
Publication Date: 1941
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition Thus.
Condition: Near Fine

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