Item #900742 The Graveyard by the Sea (Signed by Illustrator). English Rendering, Illustration, Paul Valery, Emlen Pope Etting.
The Graveyard by the Sea (Signed by Illustrator)
The Graveyard by the Sea (Signed by Illustrator)
The Graveyard by the Sea (Signed by Illustrator)
The Graveyard by the Sea (Signed by Illustrator)

The Graveyard by the Sea (Signed by Illustrator)

Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1932.
Illustrations by Emlen Pope Etting. 7-7/8 x 10-1/4", navy blue cloth with paper title labels front board and spine, unpaginated (49pp), 24 illustrations, frontis. page hued blue. Item #900742

#52 of 300 hand set copies printed by Burnley Weaver at the Gollifox Press at Biltmore, N. Carolina. Presentation inscription in French to fellow admirer of Valery signed by Emlen (Etting) in Bryn Mawr 1947. 

Each of 24 stanzas appear on a single recto leaf in French and English translation, with 24 black & white illustrations on facing pages. 

Mild toning to leaves, tight, square, clean of owner's marks, a bit of rubbing to edges of cloth, cloth bright, near fine, fragile fragmented dust wrapper laid in.

Price: $225.00