[TOBACCOANIA]
BAIN JR., JOHN. Tobacco Leaves. Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co. 1903. First edition. Publisher's full suede, upper board gilt, housed in its original tobacco leaf covered cardboard box, with printed title label pasted to the edge, and with two chromolithographed labels to the box's interior and exterior signed and dated "Copyright 1894. Geo. S. Harris & Sons, Phila." 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches (16.25 x 11.25 cm); 192 pp., chromolithographed frontispiece and title. Light soiling and wear to suede, front hinge cracked, overopened in a few spots, box cracking along hinge, corners, and edges, loss to tobacco leaf on top of box (but most of the lost leaf is retained), laid in sepia photograph of the San Gabriel Mission in Havana, Cuba.

A collection of poems and other writings in praise of the tobacco leaf. This copy retains its rare original box.