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Milton S. Ray. The Poet And The Messenger. The Grabhorn Press, 1945.
Price: US$29.68 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good+ hardcover with DJ. PAGES CLEAN AND UNMARKED. Covers (orange decorated boards, white vellum back lettered in gold) like new. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket (plain brown wrapper) shows very light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Ray, Milton S.. The Poet and the Messenger. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1945.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Lacks dustjacket ; Otherwise Fine. Limited to 250 Copies.; Folio 13" - 23" tall
Seller: Berkshire Books, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
RAY, Milton S.. The Poet and the Messenger. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, CA, 1945.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. One of only 250 copies. Foreword by Benjamin Putnam Kurtz. A fine copy in boards and in a very near fine unprinted brown dust jacket. A remarkably fresh copy.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Milton S. Ray. The Poet & The Messenger. The Grabhorn Press, 1945.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: One of 250 copies. Tips of boards have light abrasion, and top rear tip has a 1/2 inch bruise--visible in photo. A quarter of the interior pages have staining--copyright page is typical of how they all look. No other defects. Loosely inserted inside book is publisher's publicity brochure for Ray's book The Farallones--visible in photo.
Seller: Dela Duende Books, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.
Ray, Milton S.. The Poet and the Messenger. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1945.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. One of 250 copies printed for the author. Very scarce. Printed in Franciscan handset type on French handmade paper. Foreword by Benjamin Putnam Kurtz. Quarto. Pp. [ix], [x, blank]. plus 15 leaves printed on rectos only. Initials by Mallette Dean on title and throughout text in red; decoration on title, opening lines of dedication, numbering of poems, all in turquoise; opening initial of foreword in gold; colophon printed in red, printer's device in turquoise. Orange decorated boards, white vellum back lettered in gold. Bookplate, minor offsetting to endpapers. A very fine copy. A quite lovely example of Grabhorn printing in three colors plus the gold initial. No copies of the book were signed because of the untimely death of the author Ray, a very well-known local (California) poet. Ray dedicated the book to Chester Barlow, the founder of the Cooper Ornithological Club of California. The foreword is by Benjamin Kurtz, a well-known author and Professor of English at the University of California. This beautifully printed Grabhorn Press limited edition is not to be confused with the general trade edition titled, "The Poet and The Messenger, Dune-Glade and Other Poems." [Grabhorn: 418].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.