Masters edgar lee text (1 Ergebnisse)

dj. Limited Edition. One of 550 copies signed by the author. Octavo (24cm); fore-edge untrimmed; glassine dustjacket; 79pp; illus. Light shelf-soil, else a Near Fine copy. Glassine dustwrapper complete and Near Fine. In publisher's box, with paper labels on front cover, chip to front board, and tiny cracks to board edges; Good. Written in verse, with Johnston's wood engravings throughout. "Not unmindful of the Argonauts and their search for the Golden Fleece, Mr. Masters tells the stirring tale of five young men and a girl who, marked by a lust for gold, set out for El Dorado. What happens to them on the way and what they find there makes a new kind of American Odyssey, deeply charged whith the philosophy of what, in the end, the Golden Fleece turns out to be" (from publisher's slipcase paper label). [84760]. Signed.…