[Rarebooks] FS: Oliver Goldsmith's THE DESERTED VILLAGE, Printed by John Henry Nash, Printer's Copy

[Charles Agvent]

One of many fine items from our recent catalog--WINTER MISCELLANY 
2010--with 56 select items, all new arrivals.  See it on our home page:

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GOLDSMITH, Oliver. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. A POEM. San Francisco: John 
Henry Nash, 1926. First Edition. Two volumes, one folio (9" x 12-1/2") 
and the other small quarto (7" x 9"), both bound in vellum-backed green 
boards with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, housed in a matching 
slipcase. Printed for and with an Introduction by William Andrews Clark, 
Jr. Illustrated with a frontispiece of the poet by William Wilke done In 
dry-point after a bas-relief by Helen Hall Culver . The smaller volume 
is a facsimile of the first edition. Of only 200 numbered copies 
printed, this copy is marked "Printer's Copy." Bookplate of collector 
John Francis Neylan on the front pastedown. An attractive book.         
$150.00

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