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The Lark complete, imaginative fin-de-siècle magazine
The Lark complete, imaginative fin-de-siècle magazine
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Author: [Burgess, Gelett, et al]
Title: The Lark. Book I & Book II, Numbers 1-24, plus the Epi-Lark
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:William Doxey
Date Published: 1896-97
Description:


2 volumes containing all 24 issues, plus the Epi-Lark. Two plates and numerous illustrations and vignettes in the text. (8vo) 7½x5½", original pictorial beige cloth. First Edition, second issue of issue number 1 with the Doxey imprint replacing the C. A. Murdock imprint. Harlan, At the Sign of the Lark, 20



One of the most original and imaginative American fin-de-siècle magazines, instigated by a group of San Francisco artists and writers, led by Gelett Burgess and including Ernest Peixotto, Willis Polk, Porter Garnett, Yone Noguchi, Maynard Dixon and Frank Norris, who called themselves Les Jeunes. Burgess' famous verse "The Purple Cow!" is in the first issue.

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Cloth stained; hinges skillfully repaired, bookplates on front endpapers, paper toned; very good.
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The Lark complete, imaginative fin-de-siècle magazine

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