An Elegant Spoof
Sonnets from Antan with an Editorial Note by James Branch Cabell.
New York: The Fountain Press, Printed by The Grabhorn Press, 1929.
Price: $100.00
About the item
First Edition, No. 25 of 718 numbered copies, signed by Cabell. With a portrait of the putative poet Gerald Musgrave., Esq., being crowned by his muse (actually a burlesque portrait of Cabell). 1 vols. 8vo. An Elegant Spoof. Original decorated paper boards, gray cloth spine with paper label, spine faintly soiled, else fine. Heller and Magee, Grabhorn Bibliography, 118.
Item #14508
A droll volume, one of the Fifty Books of the Year, and, at 34 pages, one of the thinnest to receive this distinction, notwithstanding its gem-like typography, its pages hand-set in roman and italic Lutetia and printed in black and several colors.
