Inscribed to the Publisher
The Half Pint Flask.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1929.
Price: $450.00
About the item
Limited SIGNED Presentation Edition, one of 200 copies. Frontispiece and illustrations by Joseph E. Sandford; 55 pp. 8vo. Inscribed to the Publisher. Black gilt-stamped cloth, spine dulled, else near fine, in remnants of dustjacket.
Item #239525
One of 200 author's presentation copies of Heyward's classic ghost story, this copy INSCRIBED to Heyward's publisher and his wife on a tipped-in leaf, “John & Margaret Farrar, with the affection of DuBose Heyward.” THE HALF PINT FLASK was one of four books ready for sale on September 3, 1929, the first publication day of Farrar and Rinehart (cf. Tebbel, vol III p. 174).
