[Rarebooks] FS: Gelett Burgess. The Lark

[Clare Murphy]

BURGESS, GELETT.  LARK. 2 VOLUMES, THE. San Francisco: William Doxey, 
1895-97. Illustrated by Ernest Peixotto, Florence Lundborg and Willis 
Polk. Attractive pictorial bindings. Complete run. All published. 
Book I and II, nos. 1-12 and 13-24, plus "The Epilark". "Each number 
consisted of sixteen square twelvemo pages, printed on one side of 
brownish bamboo paper, a bale of which Burgess had found in San 
Francisco's China town and which, remarked Carolyn Wells forty years 
later, "today disintegrates when you look at it..." Mott Vol. IV, pg. 
388. Gelett Burgess and his young aesthetic pals started this 
magazine with just $100. "for a lark". It did so well that William 
Doxey offered to publish it after Number 1. These present copies' 
paper have not disintegrated but the preliminary pages before Number 
1, have suffered some indignities. The list of contents of the first 
book have become loose. Those pages also have tape repair. The 
binding is strong on both volumes and no pages are missing. There is 
some soiling to the boards and spines.  $575.00

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