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Clemens, Samuel L., Theodore Roosevelt, et al.
Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 USD
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Description
- Liber Scriptorum. The First Book of the Authors Club. New York: [De Vinne Press for] The Author's Club, 1893
- leather, ink, paper
Folio. Title-page printed in red and black. Publisher's brown morocco, stamped in gilt and black; top edge gilt, others uncut; extremities rubbed, scattered wear to rear cover, head-, and tail-pieces; hinges reinforced, floral gilt endpapers, occasional spotting.
Catalogue Note
First edition, number 87 of 251 copies printed. A sweeping anthology of stories, poems, essays and prose sketches, with contributions from one hundred and nine writers — each signed by the author at the end of the corresponding entry. Including contributions from Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, and Samuel Clemens, whose short story, "The Californian's Tale," is signed "Mark Twain" in his hand.