of just two thousand numbered copies. It will probably be impossible to make further copies before next year. The probable price—four dollars.
W. H. Hudson's "A Little Boy Lost" is now accepted, I fancy, as a classic for children of all ages. Dorothy P. Lathrop, whom many of you will remember for her delightfully imaginative pictures done last year for Walter de la Mare's "The Three Mulla Mulgars," has illustrated the Hudson book con amore. The result is a singularly fine large octavo wholly successful, I think, as to paper, printing, and binding. I hoped this would not cost more than five dollars, but I fear the price must be set at six.
(By the way, I should like readers to realize this: that I try to make Borzoi Books as well as I know how. Then I base the price on what they cost to make. I do not fix the price first and then try to trim the quality so as to come within that price.)
Joseph Hergesheimer's "San Cristobal de la Habana" is not fiction. It is about Havana full of the colour he loves and of which he is a master—and Joe himself. It will please and interest his friends; it will probably enrage his enemies. But so engaging and candid a book will certainly be read. The first edition at any rate will be printed on Warren's India Tint Olde Style paper and bound in half black cloth, with Chinese Orange board sides spattered with gold. Three fifty is the price and there will be a hundred numbered copies printed on Shathmore Laid paper, specially bound and autographed at seven-fifty.
I planned Mencken's "Prejudices" to be an annual affair and the second series will be ready in October. It will be as provoking (and I hope and believe as popular) as its predecessor, though it will deal less with books and more with the ideas underlying them. The price will remain, for the moment anyway, two dollars.
