Love Letters of a Musician

G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint; embossed gray cloth with gilt stamped titles and decoration, cover design by Margaret Armstrong and bearing her monogram; 8†tall, iv, 170 pages, decorated title page with red borders, text pages bordered in black with red headings, top edge gilt. Faint dust soiling to spine and rear board, light bump to tail of spine, previous owner’s bookplate in front paste-down, small tide mark at top edge of first 120 pages. Beautiful copy of Myrtle Reed’s first novel. The first edition of this book has the same cloth as this copy, most reprints are in a solid lavender cloth, more closely resembling the many bindings Armstrong designed for Reed. (Inventory #: 201542)