San Salvador - INSCRIBED to Edmond Meany
Seattle: Privately Printed, 1910. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Unpaginated [19 pp.]. Top and fore-edge untrimmed. Bound in plain paper-covered boards. Letterpress printing by Inghram Hughes, Printer. Wear to corners and spine. "Gift of R. D. Monroe 6/5/88 " is written in pencil on the front free endpaper, likely a reference to longtime UW Special Collections librarian Robert D. Monroe. Good+. Item #4734
Presents Arthur Harris's poem San Salvador. Inscribed by the printer to Edmond Meany, the dean of Pacific Northwest Historians: "To Prof. Edmond S. Meany: From the printer in appreciation of a long friendship and many kindnesses. Inghram S. Hughes / Mch. 26, 1910." Meany's color bookplate, on the front pastedown, shows three knives in color: "Three Knives" was the name bestowed on Meany by Chief Joseph, symbolizing Meany's preeminent attributes of mind, heart and hand.
Price: $85.00