first edition hardcover
1916 · New York
by WHARTON, Edith, ed
New York: Scribner, 1916. Limited. hardcover. very good(+). Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. Illustrated throughout with tissue-protected plates, some in color. Folio, cloth-backed printed boards, uncut. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. Limited American edition. Rubbed at corners, otherwise clean and sound. A very good copy.
Original Articles in Verse and Prose. Illustrations reproduced from Original Paintings & Drawings. Contributors include: Rupert Brooke, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, W.B. Yeats, etc. The book was sold for the benefit of the American Hostels for Refugees. Number 61 of 125 large format copies on Van Gelder paper, signed by D.B. Updike, the printer. (Inventory #: 329099)
Original Articles in Verse and Prose. Illustrations reproduced from Original Paintings & Drawings. Contributors include: Rupert Brooke, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, W.B. Yeats, etc. The book was sold for the benefit of the American Hostels for Refugees. Number 61 of 125 large format copies on Van Gelder paper, signed by D.B. Updike, the printer. (Inventory #: 329099)
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