Hazel Dreis Editions and Libros Escogidos
The German Terror in France by Arnold J. Toynbee, 1917. Snakeskin binding by Edward McLean, probably done in the early 1940s. McLean paid young boys to capture snakes, cured the skins himself and used them to create one-of-a-kind bindings. Courtesy of Penrose Library, University of Denver.
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