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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937. Loren Barton. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Octavo. Bound in green cloth with embossed illustration to front board, spine lettered in brown. Illustrated by Loren Barton. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket, closed tear at head of spine and front panel, chips to spine ends. Briefly inscribed to noted artist, illustrator and printer Mallette Dean and his wife.
Laid in is 1pp. TLS dated May 1, 1936 from Helen Ferris, one of the editors of The Junior Literary Guild mentioning their release of Gertrude Mallette's first book FOR KEEPS which was illustrated with linocuts by Dean. Very Good / Very Good-. Item #8282
Novel about working at a newspaper. This copy is from the personal collection of noted artist, illustrator, and printer Mallette Dean, who was Gertrude Mallette's nephew. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
Price: $125.00