{"product_id":"to-2026-134","title":"The Cup of Gold","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGILLESPIE, Ruth Merriam.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Cup of Gold.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e, one of 500 copies. San Francisco: Taylor \u0026amp; Taylor, 1917. Illustrated by Anna Wille.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. 18 unnumbered pages, with a mounted color frontispiece by Wille (\"And there in all its beauty lay the Dream-Child\"), an additional black-and-white plate, and a mounted black-and-white illustration on the front wrapper. Pale green string-tied wrappers, the front cover with mounted illustration set within gilt rules and dark green lettering. A very good copy: short closed tears along the edges of the wrappers and age toning, contents fresh and clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGillespie's brief fairy tale — \"a great and beautiful country on the shore of the western ocean which in the ages long ago was inhabited only by the Fairies of the Hills and the Sea\" — is set within the careful Taylor \u0026amp; Taylor typography (red ornamental rule borders, ornamental initials, a poppy device on the title page) for which the press is now collected. Anna Wille's signed frontispiece carries the Art Nouveau, Beardsley-adjacent feel of West Coast illustration in the immediate teens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvenance: two early ownership bookplates — \"From Among the Books of R. I. Johnson\" (a turbaned figure beneath a Moorish arch) and \"From the Library of Enid Barr Hicks\" (a willow-tree vignette) — and, laid in, a 1991 gift inscription from Enid Barr Hicks to Jan Shiosoki, \"with love,\" together with a separate Christmas note: \"Merry Christmas Jan! This is one of my Treasures! I want you to have it. Love, Grandmother.\" A small book with a long social life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-134\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gillespie, Ruth Merriam","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459955544225,"sku":"TO-2026-134","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-134_04.jpg?v=1783395984","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-134","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}