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The book of the homeless = (Le livre des sans-foyer) : original articles in verse and prose, illustrations reproduced from original paintings & drawings / edited by Edith Wharton ...

Accession number
PML 137416
Published
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
"The book is sold for the benefit of the American hostels for refugees (with the Foyer Franco-Belge) and of the Children of Flanders Rescue Committee."
Authors contributing: Maurice Barrès, Sarah Bernhardt, Laurence Binyon, Henry James, etc. Artists: Léon Bakst, Max Beerbohm, J.-E. Blanche, etc. Composers: Vincent d'Indy, Igor Stravinsky.
"Of this book, in addition to the regular edition, there have been printed and numbered one hundred and seventy-five copies de luxe, of larger format. Numbers 1-50 on French hand-made paper, containing four facsimiles of manuscripts and a second set of illustrations in portfolio. Numbers 51-175 on Van Gelder paper"--Colophon.
Each plate preceeded by unnumbered leaf with title.
"D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, U.S.A."--T.p. verso.
Library copy is unnumbered.
Description
xxv, [1], 154, [4] p., [22] leaves of plates : ill., (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department