WHY THE MILKMAN SHUDDERS WHEN HE PERCEIVES THE DAWN

DUNSANY, Lord

Published by Privately Printed, Fostoria, Ohio, 1925

About this Item

Octavo, publisher's light blue boards with printed paper title label on upper cover, light blue endpapers. Printed in light blue and black, decorative title page. [6] pp. "Put into type and printed by Edwin Uhler Sowers, 2d, in December 1925 and sent to you with his heartiest Christmas wishes. 100 copies printed". This copy is inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper "To Huib van Krimpen from the printer. E.U. Sowers 1/12/77". Huib van Krimped was the son of Dutch typographer Hans van Krimpen. The spine is loosening at the bottom front hinge but the book is in beautiful, near fine condition. Likely, Lord Dunsany's rarest book. Issued by a Small Printer in the midwest as a Christmas token; this is the first separate edition of a short fantasy tale which first appeared in THE LAST BOOK OF WONDER (1916). A great rarity - although we have handled a copy before, and we know of one collector who had a copy but gave it to the library at Dunsany Castle as it was lacking from their holdings. One might think that the Sheffield School of Art edition of THE FORTRESS UNVANQUISHABLE, SAVE FOR SACNOTH issued in 1910 in an edition of 30 copies would be the greatest desiderata for Dunsany afficionados (certainly the vellum bound issue, limited to circa 10 copies); or the first separate edition of CARCASSONNE (Boston, John W. Luce & Company, circa 1947). But I have previously championed 'Milkman' for the honour of 'rarest book', and I may possibly be correct. No matter what the final decision on 'Dunsany's rarest book' may be, 'WHY THE MILKMAN SHUDDERS' is in the running, and this is a lovely copy, inscribed by the printer over 50 years after publication.

Seller Inventory # 313960

Bibliographic Details

• Title: WHY THE MILKMAN SHUDDERS WHEN HE PERCEIVES THE DAWN
• Publisher: Privately Printed, Fostoria, Ohio
• Publication Date: 1925
• Binding: Hardcover
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• Edition: First Edition (& 1st printing).
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Lord Dunsany