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Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover Very Good no10 of a limited and signed edition of 325, published by the Book Club of California in 1929, including the club newsletter about this edition and an order form with envelope loosely laid in Buckram-covered hardcover in very good condition, spine slighly faded, slipcase with some shelf-wear, rubbing and spoting Ships from Hawaii.

San Francisco: printed by The Brothers Johnson at The Windsor Press for the Book Club of California, 1929. Hardcover. 29p., lightly-worn and stained limited first edition #53/325 copies signed by the poet in wine cloth boards, mottled and with faded psine titles.

The Book Club of California, 1929. Hard cover. Near fine/No jacket. Signed by poet. Limited edition of 325 copies printed. Copy #72. Excellent condition. No visible flaws apart from light foxing on text block edges, not visible on pages. Binding is tight and pages are clean and unmarked.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1929. First Edition. One of an edition of 325 copies signed by the author. Printed by the Brothers Johnson at the Windsor Press, handset type on handmade Arches paper. Finely reasoned essay on poetry venturing from the songs of the Navajo to a lengthy discussion on Chinese poems and Wordsworth. 'It is not necessary that culture bring about the death of poetry, as it did in the Rome of Virgil. The cynics are wrong who see in our future no place for an art which belongs, they say, to the childhood of the race. The head of a man and the heart of a child working together as in the Chinese have made possible with one race and may make possible with any race, even in the thick of the most intricate culture, the persistence of the purest poetry.' Witter Bynner. Limited edition of 325 signed copies. Small slim quarto, original red cloth, small neat previous owner's inscription on inner cover, back board partially sunned, else fine.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1929 First edition. One of 325 copies, SIGNED by the author. [6], 29pp. Title illustration, chapter head piece. Red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Spine slightly faded, bookplate on inner cover, else a fine copy. Printed by the Brothers Johnson at the Windsor Press with handset type on Arches hand-made paper. The latter part of this essay appeared as the author's introduction to The Jade Mountain, an anthology of 300 poems of the Tang dynasty, translated from the Chinese by Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. [Barr, Presses of Northern California: p.205]..

Slim 4to. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1929. Slim 4to, [6], 29pp. Title illustration, chapter head piece. Red cloth, gilt-lettered spine, slipcase (broken), backstrip faded. § Limited to 325 copies signed by Bynner. Printed by the Brothers Johnson at the Windsor Press with handset type on Arches hand-made paper. The latter part of this essay appeared as the author's introduction to "The Jade Mountain", an anthology of 300 poems of the Tang dynasty, translated from the Chinese by Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu.