LAFCADIO HEARN'S AMERICAN DAYS
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1924. Edward Larocque Tinker. First edition. first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Item #39184
Number 15 of 150 copies signed by Tinker on a special limitation page. Also inscribed below the limitation by Tinker; "I take great pleasure in inscribing this book for a man I admire very much, my good friend George Matthew Adams. Edward Larocque Tinker 1954". Laid in is a typed signed letter by Tinker inviting Adams to visit, dated 1932. "Adams was an American newspaper columnist and founder of the George Matthew Adams Newspaper Service, which syndicated comic strips and columns to newspapers for five decades." Bound in quarter dark brown cloth with textured paper boards. Lettering on spine in gilt. Top edges in gilt. Leading and bottom edges untrimmed. A hint of dulling to gilt on top. A very handsome, near fine copy.
Price: $225.00