The Golden Key: Stories of Deliverance / Henry Van Dyke

Book

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American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

The Golden Key: Stories of Deliverance / Henry Van Dyke

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.356

Description

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."

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Short stories, 1920s

Dimensions

Height

7-3/4 in

Book Details

Author

Henry Van Dyke

Edition

First

Publisher

Charles Scribner's Sons

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1926

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau

Binding Designer

Margaret Armstrong

Binding Notes

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.

Notes

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

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Margaret Armstrong Binding Collection (Library of Congress)

Related Publications

Publication

Margaret Armstrong and American Trade Bindings (1991)

Notes

Gullans & Espey 290

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection