Songs by George Sterling and Lawrence Zenda

San Francisco: Sherman, Clay & Co., (1916). Presumed first ed. Quarto in ribbon-tied pictorial pale beige decorative self-wraps; 43, [1] pages of musical scores; 31 cm About near fine(-) to very good(+) with external soiling and very minor edge-wear; a bit fraying to end tie of ribbon binding. Paperback.

Scarce thus in the original issue. Nine original songs. Zenda is a pseudonym of Mrs. Rosaliene Reed Travis, who collaborated frequenlty with celebrated California poet Geoge Sterling. / Early San Francisco women composers. Songs, Romantic music. Art deco book design./ "George Sterling (December 1, 1869 – November 17, 1926) was an American writer based in the San Francisco, California Bay Area and Carmel-by-the-Sea. He was considered a prominent poet and playwright and proponent of Bohemianism during the first quarter of the twentieth century. His work was admired by writers as diverse as Ambrose Bierce, Robinson Jeffers, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Clark Ashton Smith. In addition, Sterling played a major role in the growth of the California cities of Oakland, Piedmont, and Carmel-by-the-Sea."—Wikipedia