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Keep, Josiah; Baily, Joshua L., Jr : The Poetry of Shells

The Eucalyptus Press, Mills College, Oakland, CA, 1949

Limited Edition, one of 225 copies printed. Original publisher's light brown paper-covered boards backed with medium brown cloth. Text and illustrations of different shells on front cover. 8 1/4" x 10 3/4." Twenty-five pages, complete. Small, black-and-white, decorative illustrations, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact. Covers are very clean and intact except for a few small marks to front and back. Binding is tight. A Fine copy. A lecture by Professor Josiah Keep in book form. Keep merges scientific study, descriptive prose, and lyrical poetry in this homage to shells. Josiah Keep (1849-1911) was a professor of natural sciences who taught at Mills College in Oakland, California. The Eucalyptus Press was founded in 1932 and is the imprint of the Book Art Program at Mills College to this day. Back colophon: "The manuscript copy of this paper, read before the Berkeley Club in 1899, came to light recently and the author's daughter had the pleasure of setting it in Centaur type and printed 225 copies on Worthy Hand and Arrow paper. The cuts were made some five or six decades ago from the original pen and ink drawings by Laura M. Mellen for the early editions of West Coast Shells.". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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