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First edition. Three poems - with the last written by Harte shortly before his death - here grouped together and wonderfully illustrated by Arthur Keller - with gilt and black art noveau style head and tail pieces on every page of text, 35 full-page drawings of black ink on a buff-colored background and a color frontispiece and title page and eight full page full color plates, with the captions printed on the tissue guards. Top edge gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Unpaginated. A lovely book. Very good, in light green cloth with a pasted on illustration by Keller and a decorative border of dark green flowers. Some fraying to the ends of the spine and one corner, contents near fine. .

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