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RUSSELL, Charles (1852–1916). Good Medicine: The Illustrated Letters of… Foreword by Will Rogers. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930.
Small folio. Color frontispiece and numerous color vignettes after drawings by Russell. Original “coarse–weave” cloth stamped in red and gilt, color illustrated endpapers; original unclipped dust jacket (small stain and loss on front panel, corners and ends a bit chipped). Provenance: Mr. Forsman (see letter).
FIRST TRADE EDITION, IN A RARE BINDING with a TLS laid in from Frederic G. Renner, a Russell authority and bibliographer, dated 13 August 1973, describing this coarse–weave state and declaring that he has seen “far fewer copies” of this binding. Yost–Renner, p. 25.
[With:] another first trade edition in dust jacket but in the more common smooth buckram binding.