8vo. Frontispiece and vignettes. Original plain tan wrappers (joint starting), stapled, within original printed apple green wrappers with vignette on front (soft crease to front wrapper, some minor loss of pigment); orange quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Perry Molstad (bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent); acquired by the present owner from a descendant of John Fleming.

FIRST TRADE EDITION, ONE OF 15 COPIES BOUND IN APPLE GREEN WRAPPERS. The first trade edition of The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver consisted of 500 copies printed on regular paper.  Of these, all but 75 were bound in orange wrappers.  Frank Shay, the publisher, had the remaining 75 copies bound in five different colored wrappers (15 of each): red, dark green, apple green, yellow, and blue.  "Simultaneously with the first edition there were printed five copies on Japan vellum, having the same title-page as the regular edition, but differing from the regular edition in that the endsheets were omitted...The only one I have seen was bound in red wrappers. Mr. Shay has no record or recollection of what other colors were used on these five copies" (Yost 15).  A FINE COPY OF THIS RARITY.