BURROUGHS, Franklin. Compression Wood. First separate edition of this essay which was originally published in The American Scholar in 1998 and selected for inclusion in The Anthology of Best American Essays for 1999. One of 85 specially bound copies signed by Burroughs and Gill, including an original etching by Gill tipped in as a frontispiece. Designed by Leslie Miller of the Grenfell Press, Compression Wood was printed under the supervision of Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy. Franklin Burroughs is the author of Billy Watson's Croker Sack and Horry & the Waccamaw. (more info)