The Voice of the City and Other Stories SIGNED | O. Henry, Clifton Fadiman Georg Grosz, Introduction, Ill

The Voice of the City and Other Stories [SIGNED]

Henry, O.; Clifton Fadiman (Introduction) Georg Grosz (Ill.)

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. 1013/1500. Quarto. xi, [1] 220 [3]pp., 20 plates. Original black buckram with gilt lettering on spine, housed in purple buckram slipcase with gilt lettering on spine. Color illustration on title page. Signed and numbered (1013) by George Grosz on colophon. Beautifully illustrated with twenty full-page color offset reproductions of works by German artist George Grosz, pus a color vignette on the title page.

"A great European artist [George Grosz] find legitimate inspiration in the local, one may well say the provincial, fables of O. Henry; and a publisher finds the best of them worthy of beautiful and permanent format... Nothing, I think, is more characteristic of him [O. Henry] than the words he is reputed to have uttered just before his death... "Don't turn down the light. I'm afraid to go home in the dark." (Introduction)

Slipcase with light sunning along edges and spine, light wear along edges. Binding with light wear along edges and 1/2 inch closed tear at head of spine. Slightly starting at inside front and back gutters. Block lightly agetonend. Illustrations in fine condition, Very good- to fine condition. Item #56097

Price: $350.00

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