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The trade binding in the rare publisher’s dust jacket and slipcase, all in exceptional condition. This is the only example of the slipcase we know of and just the second example of the jacket. There also was a large paper edition which was issued with jacket and slipcase.
Despite the lack of color, this jacket conveys the beauty of the binding by reversing the dark and light areas of the design using only shades of black ink and the color of the paper itself. In The Art of American Book Covers 1875 - 1930 (New York: Braziller, 2010, p. 53), Richard Minsky attributes the design to Thomas Watson Ball, noting that it is usually “wrongly attributed to Bruce Rogers, who did the typographic design for this book.”
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