Author: Title: Nowel
Description: New York, Currier & Harford, 1926. Paperback. A scarce limited edition poem, written in six stanza, with striking illustrations by the "Dean of Industrial Design" Walter Dorwin Teague. A scarce limited edition of five hundred unnumbered copies, printed by the publisher for their friends and the friends of the illustrator. Presentation slip from the publisher, Everett Currier, is loosely inserted, presenting the work to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Coykendall.In the original dust wrapper over plain wraps.'Nowel' is a poem in six stanza, purported to be written by the fifth Earl of Penmarch, Stephen Osbert Shirley, in the Elizabethan era.Strikingly decorated with illustrations by Walter Dorwin Teague.Lacking the original glassine. In the original publisher's plain paper wraps, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart, a couple of light marks to the wraps. Dust wrapper is a little edgeworn, with closed tears to the folds and a small amount of loss to the head and tail of the spine. Wraps are a little age-toned with a few light handling marks, a little heavier to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Walter Dorwin Teague. Near Fine/Very Good.
Keywords: Nowel poetry elizabethan verse frederick coykendall poetry Walter Dorwin Teague
Price: GBP 120.00 = appr. US$ 171.36 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 946P21
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