The Oriole Press, Berkeley Heights, NJ, 1934. Small 8vo cloth backed marbled paper covered boards. Limited to 250 copies of which this is hand numbered 79. Printed on luxurious, texture-rich Nuremberg German mould-made paper. Tiny bit of rubbing to edges. Paper spine label bright and intact. Inscribed by Gladys of the ffep.
Hand-set and privately printed, this 76 page volume represents a rare artistic collaboration between author Gladys Edgerton and legendary libertarian publisher Joseph Ishill at his famous Oriole Press.
Edgerton was a writer closely integrated into early 20th-century intellectual, literary, and progressive circles. Ishill (1888-1966), an immigrant anarchist, typographer, and major figure in the historic Ferrer Colony. Operating The Oriole Press completely as a one man labor of love, Ishill hand-set every single letter of his publications to produce museum-grade typographic masterpieces.