The Right Eye of the Commander / Bret Harte

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

The Right Eye of the Commander / Bret Harte

Entry/Object ID

2025.16.1

Description

Unpaginated, 22p. First thus (first time text is published in this particular way).Front cover is green with a coarse cream cloth on top. Front cover shows a man with cutlass and very large mustache, piece of cloth flapping behind him. Back cover shows same man but from behind. Wrapped in plastic (mylar?). Fore edge is not trimmed

Collection

Howard Kistler

Dimensions

Height

26.2 cm

Width

17.3 cm

Book Details

Author

Bret Harte

Illustrator

Wilder Bentley, Ellen Bentley

Volume/Number/Issue

One of 350 copies

Publisher

Wilder Bentley, Ellen Bentley

Place Published

City

Berkeley

State/Province

California

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

9/3/1937

Printer

The Archetype Press

Place Printed

City

Berkeley

State/Province

California

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Printed

9/3/1937

Binding

Binding Type

Case binding

Binding Notes

Probably hand sewn on tapes, no endbands, pages deckle edged and illustrations are hand colored.

Notes

"Garnished by Hans and served up savorily from the hand presses of Wilder & Ellen Bentley" Colophon at the back :" One of 350 copies, of which 75 are hand colored by Hans. Designed, hand set and printed on a hand press by Wilder and Ellen Bentley at The Archetype Press, Berkeley, September 3, 1937" Evidence of laces at the endpapers.