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The Golden Key: Stories of Deliverance / Henry Van Dyke

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Bound for Beauty #66 viii, 347 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. Contents: To Avernus and out -- A Cast-off son -- The Sweet influence of the Pleiades -- A Queen's deliverance -- The Devil at sea -- A Wilful Andromeda -- A Sunflower in the West -- A Garden enclosed -- A Blind lamplighter -- A Garment of praise -- The Silver doctor -- "The Head that wears a crown."
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2015.7.356

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Short stories1920s

7-3/4 in

Henry Van Dyke

First

Charles Scribner's Sons

New York

New York

United States

North America

1926

Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau

Margaret Armstrong

Art nouveau cover design in gilt, orange and periwinkle blue of a large, ornate key stamped upon navy blue cloth. Gilt titles and design to spine. Notable for very scarce dust jacket priced at 2.00. Jacket repeats spine and cover designs. One of a series of uniform bindings designed by Armstrong for Van Dyke titles issued by Scribners.

Faint flyleaf inscription: To the Douglass [unclear]. From Closter Millun [?] [unclear].

Margaret Armstrong Binding Collection (Library of Congress)

Margaret Armstrong and American Trade Bindings (1991)

Gullans & Espey 290

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection

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