To a Girl Dancing
by STERLING, GEORGE
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Boards a little dust-soiled and rubbed at the edges; very good copy of one of Sterling's least common works.
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
(San Francisco: Printed by the Grabhorn Press), 1921, 1921. First edition, privately printed, one of 120 copies signed by Sterling. Mattila A24; BAL 18795; Grabhorn Bibliography 32. Boards a little dust-soiled and rubbed at the edges; very good copy of one of Sterling's least common works.. 4to, original printed gray paper boards, 12 pages. A popular poem by San Francisco poet George Sterling (1869-1926), privately printed by the Grabhorn Press for the San Francisco patron-of-the-arts Albert Bender. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Dear Dick, I hope you'll like my dancing girl? Yours ever, George. San Francisco, June 16, 1921."
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Brick Row Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28202
- Title
- To a Girl Dancing
- Author
- STERLING, GEORGE
- Format/Binding
- Mattila A24; BAL 18795; Grabhorn Bibliography 32
- Book Condition
- Used - Boards a little dust-soiled and rubbed at the edges; very good copy of one of Sterling's least common works.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, privately printed, one of 120 copies signed by St
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (San Francisco: Printed by the Grabhorn Press), 1921
- Date Published
- 1921
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About the Seller
The Brick Row Book Shop
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