£6,250
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 694
Auction: 13 July 2022 at 11:00 BST
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. 8vo, original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed, contemporary bookseller's ticket (Gotham Book Mart, New York) to rear pastedown, a few extra specks of gilt to front board around title, text-block toned [Gallup A6a]
Note: First edition, first impression, number 657 of 1000 copies, intermediate state, with the correct reading of 'mountains' on p. 41 (line 339) as in the 'first copies' (Gallup), but with the figures in the colophon only 2mm high as in later copies.