MENCKEN, Henry Louis

Sterling

San Francisco: Printed by Henry Nash for His Friends, 1926. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Folio (18 x 13 1/2 inches), folded sheet, fore- and bottom-edges untrimmed. Edges a bit age-toned, fore-edge of second leaf a trifle worn, but a very good copy. Item #409451

First edition of this tribute to George Sterling by Mencken, one of 300 copies printed; with a pictorial border by William Wilke. The second leaf (recto) contains Nash's account of this publication, plus a sonnet by Sterling. Adler & Wilhelm, p. 14 (erroneously giving the year of publication as 1927. (BA).

Price: $150.00