BRUTE GODS. A Novel. 1919. 12mo, cloth; 355 pages; $2.00.
CORA LENORE WILLIAMS
CREATIVE INVOLUTION. Introduction by Edwin Markham. 1916. 12mo, cloth; 222 pages. [Now published by Miss Williams.]
HAROLD WILLIAMS
MODERN ENGLISH WRITERS: A Study of Imaginative Literature 1890–1914. 8vo, 534 pages; $6.00.
POSTSCRIPT
A number of books are scheduled for publication in October. Some will doubtless be delayed, as manufacturing conditions are still difficult and transportation none too certain. However, I am bound to have out before the holidays three unusually charming gift books.
Van Vechten’s “The Tiger in the House” is the only complete account in English of the domestic cat. It is Carlo’s magnum opus and I have made in it, I think, quite the handsomest of all my books. A large octavo bound in half canvas with purple Japanese Toyogami sides stamped in gold. The text is set in Caslon old style type, and printed on India Tint Art Craft laid paper and since no more of this is to be manufactured till the indefinite future—if then—the edition for 1920 consists of only two thousand numbered copies. The book runs to almost four hundred pages, with bibliography and index and there are thirty-two full pages of the most charming cat pictures you ever saw. The price should be seven-fifty.
I am peculiarly proud to offer “Seven Men” by Max Beerbohm—the “incomparable Max.” These five stories were published in London last year by William Heinemann, but my edition will be different. For “Max” has given us an inimitable appendix and six drawings to illustrate it and neither text nor pictures have ever been printed before. Thus the Borzoi “Seven Men” becomes a real “first” and an item for collectors. On this account and because in order to give the book the odd shape (square octavo) I wanted I had to have the paper specially manufactured, the first printing consists of just two thousand numbered copies. It will probably be impossible to make further copies before next year. The probable price—four dollars.
W. H. Hudson’s “A Little Boy Lost” is now accepted, I fancy, as a classic for children of all ages. Dorothy P. Lathrop, whom many of you will remember for her delightfully imaginative pictures done last year for Walter de la Mare’s “The Three Mulla Mulgars,” has illustrated the Hudson book con amore. The result is a singularly fine large octavo—wholly successful, I think, as to paper, printing, and binding. I hoped this would not cost more than five dollars, but I fear the price must be set at six.