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[St. Louis]: [Washington University], 1943. First printing. First printing. Bound by Loyd haberly in full brown morocco elaborately tooled on front cover with inlaid pieces of green and black morocco, spine lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt. ONE OF ONLY 48 COPIES. With 14 hand-colored woodcut vignette illustrations. [bound with] Neecha: Written & Printed by Loyd Haberly. With 3 hand-colored woodcut vignette illustrations. Together, 2 titles bound together. Printed in red & black. 19x15, . One of 48 copies. Finely printed verse by the poet, printer, illustrator, bookbinder and one-time Rhodes Scholar who briefly served as controller of the Gregynog Press in Wales before returning to the United States. Laid-in is a typed sheet (carbon) with five short poems by Haberly, with a pencil notation "Belongs with this book. May be unpublished poems." Some mildew staining to covers, else very good. Scarce thus.

St. Louis: Haberly, 1943. Finely bound by Haberly in full red-brown calf with Haberly's all-over ornate and pleasing stylized gilt work which has become quite recognizable. Limited to only 48 copies. Beautifully patterned green endpapers. This copy is inscribed by Haberly in the form of a poem, on the leaf before title page: "To Dorothy & Carroll, Our worst between us and the starry quest, Our Best Between us and jungle night, We are not ever wholly damned or blest. We are not ever wholly wrong or right: Divinity that makes poor dust so proud Is lightning leaping from a sombre cloud, Leaving the long gloom deeper for its light- affectionately, HAB." Written in fountain pen. Fine condition. Scarce thus.