STORIES FROM THE CHAP-BOOK. Being a Miscellany of Curious and Interesting Tales, Histories, &c; Newly Composed by Many Celebrated Writers and Very Delightful to Read.
ANTHOLOGY.
Price: $65.00 USD
Place Published: Chicago:
Publisher: Herbert S. Stone & Company. and to be sold by them at The Caxton Building in Dearborn Street.
Date Published: 1896.
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Book Id: 309367
Description
First Edition. Octavo, original light brown cloth stamped with a pictorial design on both front & rear covers. Title page lettered in red and black. 241 pp + 8 page publisher`s 'Catalogue No. 1' dated October, 1898 bound in at rear. Mild light rubbing to the covers, a nearly fine, bright copy.
Comments
¶ An anthology of stories from THE CHAP-BOOK Magazine, a fin-de-siècle American literary magazine. The book has a poster- like binding design on both covers by E.A. Borie of a woman reading while she walks down the street; unusually, the covers were printed by colour lithography.
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