[Book Club of California] King, Clarence

[Presentation by Carl Wheat] The Helmet of Mambrino

San Francisco: Book Club of California | University of California Press, 1938. Vellum Binding. Very Good+ binding. Item #8331

Octavo. xx, [2], 21, [3] pp. Limited edition, one of 350 copies. As issued, in marbled paper over boards, backed in vellum. Spine gilt is a trifle dulled, but generally a very nice copy.

Originally composed as a letter to King's friend, the "Bachelor of San Francisco," and first published in Century Magazine in 1886, this delightful tale was inspired by Cervantes and his account of Don Quixote's encounter with the legendary helmet of the Moorish king. Prior to this edition, it only appeared in book for in 1904. This copy with an inscription from historian Carl Wheat, author of Mapping of the Trans-Mississippi West to Joe Blumenthal of the Spiral Press, "a fellow member of WOOFFB." Magee, Book Club of California, 55.

Price: $75.00