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A SOUVENIR And A MEDLEY: Seven Poems and A Sketch by Stephen Crane with Divers and Sundry Communications from Certain Eminent Wits. The Roycroft Quarterly, May 1896. No. 1.
East Aurora, N. Y. The Roycroft Printing Shop, 1896. 1st edition (BAL 4074; cf. McKenna, p. 57, for a history of this early Roycroft publication, which ceased after only 3 issues). 48 pp. 8vo. Printed brown paper wrappers, yapp edges. Housed in a custom maroon quarter morocco clamshell case, with gilt stamped title lettering to front cover. Some chipping to the yapp edges. Very faint prior owner marginalia & commentary [erased pencil?]. A VG [or slightly better] copy in a VG case. Item #34516.1
Contains 8 poems by Crane, of which "Fast rode the Knight" makes its first appearance. The prose sketch, "A Prologue" also here first published.
Price: $450.00
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