Yellow and White. Stories.

Roberts Bros., Boston and John Lane, London, 'The Keynote Series',, 1895. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The American issue of the first edition, printed by John Wilson & Sons at the University Press, Cambridge MA, and with the Roberts Bros. imprint foremost on the title page and gold-stamped to the base of the backstrip. 8vo. 226pp. Reddy-brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine, with a black-stamped design by Aubrey Beardsley to the upper board (repeated on the title page) and a small motif to the rear board. Unprinted tissue title page protector. A little darkening to the cloth at the backstrip. A very good copy of this uncommon collection of nine short stories by the Australian author (the title of the collection is derived from a story with the same name which details an Englishman's affair with the mixed-race wife of a wealthy Chinese merchant). No dust wrapper called-for. Number sixteen of The Keynote Series, for which Aubrey Beardsley designed handsome cloth and title page decorations unique to each volume (in total Beardsley produced designs for 22 of the 36 volumes, before being fired by the publisher following the Oscar Wilde trail; the artwork for the remaining volumes was created by Patten Wilson)..