[Rarebooks] FS: TAMBURLAINE by John Reed, a copy of each issue, with an Original Photograph of Reed as Death

[Charles Agvent]

One of several spectacular John Reed items fromour recent 
catalog--SUMMER MISCELLANY 2014--which contains 127 select items, all 
new arrivals, in a variety of fields. Here is a link to our illustrated 
pdf catalog on our website:
http://www.charlesagvent.com/shop/agvent/index.html?id=DLrIinxi&mv_pc=440

REED, John. TAMBURLAINE AND OTHER VERSES. (Riverside, CT): Hillacre, 
1917. First Edition. Small quarto (6-1/4" x 9-1/2"). Issued in an 
edition of 500 copies, 450 on Utopian laid paper and 50 on Nordeling 
hand-made paper. Present here are examples of each of the two issues. 
The larger limitation is as published in blue paper-covered boards with 
a printed paper label on the front cover. The smaller limitation is 
bound by E. C. Lewis Co., Baylis Bindery, New York, in full black 
morocco leather with gilt-ruled panels and a new gilt-decorated and 
lettered spine, marbled endpapers. The smaller limitation is uncommon in 
the market. Though there is no indication of such in the books 
themselves, both of these volumes were in the possession of Louis 
Bryant, Reed's wife. Included is a 4-1/8" x 8-1/2" original photograph 
of John Reed on stage in costume annotated in Louise Bryant's hand on 
the rear: "The Game-- A Morality Play By Louise Bryant-- John Reed as 
Death." With the stamped credit information for photographer Paul 
Thompson. Dampstaining to the bottom of the spine of the larger 
limitation copy with little effect on the text. Some aging to the 
leather of the smaller limitation volume and soiling to the endpapers. 
Both Very Good.

Perhaps the best known left-wing American journalist of the twentieth 
century; Reed was portrayed by Warren Beatty in the film REDS, nominated 
for twelve Academy Awards and winner of three, which centered on Reed's 
life, notably his romance with Louise Bryant, played by Diane Keaton, 
and his early death at 33 in Moscow. Reed's best known book, TEN DAYS 
THAT SHOOK THE WORLD, is Reed's firsthand account of the October 
Revolution in Russia in 1917. (#017503)     $1,500.00

http://www.charlesagvent.com/shop/agvent/017503.html?id=rFxKEGsB&mv_pc=296

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