4to. 7 full-page woodcuts on colored paper (2 detached but present, toning.) Original pictorial boards connected by cloth tie (rubbing, some soiling at margins). Provenance: Previously sold, Waverly Auctions 9 December 1993, lot 554; Romeo Dougherty (1885-1944), American sports journalist and drama critic (presentation inscription).

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 4 of 1000 copies. INSCRIBED BY MUSE TO ROMEO DOUGHERTY, "President Hoover has book number 1, Will Rogers has book number 2, Governor Rolph of California has book number 3. I mention this fact Romeo to assure you that you are still one of the "Four Horsemen." Friends, my greatest treasure, and to think after all these years fate granted me the privilege to try [to] express my gratitude. Accept this as an effort to complete a contract of life. One pal to another, Clarence Muse." Clarence Muse was an American actor who in 1929 became the first African American to appear in a starring role in a major motion picture, Hearts of Dixie, notable also for being the first to feature an all-Black cast. Over the course of a career lasting half a century Muse appeared in 150 films, and was one of the first inductees into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.