First book by the Scarab Press
“A Most Unholy Trade’ Being Letters on the Drama.
[Cambridge, Mass]: The Scarab Press. Privately Printed, 1923.
Price: $200.00
About the item
One of 100 copies. Frontispiece from a wood engraving by Waldo Murray after a drawing by John S. Sargent. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. First book by the Scarab Press. Original cloth back boards decorated after a design by Waldo Murray. Some rubbing and discoloration of boards, else fine. Edel C6; Ransom no. 9 under Dunster House noting “the Scarab Press, a name used to preserve anonymity by one man who printed and bound the book alone”.
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