By The Bay is an hard to find limited edition little book of verse by Lucia E. Loring (Smith), frontispiece from a bas relief modeled by Bradetta L. Smith. Of this edition only 250 copies were imprinted by the Tomoye Press, San Francisco, for Paul Elder & Company, under the direction of J.H. Nash, in the year nineteen hundred & nine. It is in good to very good overall vintage condition. There is a little fading on the cover boards and spine, the corners are bumped and bent a tiny bit, some pages have minor creasing, front pages have discoloration from pasted newspaper articles about the book. The binding is tight, and the pages are clean. No old book smells.
By The Bay
by Lucia Etta Loring (Smith)
Paul Elder & Company, San Francisco, 1909
1st edition, 1st printing, 61 pages
measures 7 1/4" x 5 3/4"
1 of 250 copies ever imprinted by the Tomoye Press under the direction of John Henry Nash
excerpt from the book, page 7...
Opaline
The sky has an opaline sheen,
Turquoise melting through gold into
roseate bloom,
With the silver flash of a curved blade
of a moon
Like a cimeter sharp and keen,
Where over the glistening Bay
You linger, so far away,
The masses of purplish blur
Outline the City's height,
And the flashing and vanishing lure
Of the Alcatraz light
Is like a mischievous eye,
Everything's fickle and changing, like opals,
tonight,
But not you nor I? Not you nor I.
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