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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 190913
Published
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.
Credit line
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2002.
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."
Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt.
Title-page and other decorations by Rudolph Ruzicka.
Authors contributing: Maurice Barrès, Sarah Bernhardt, Laurence Binyon, Henry James. Artists: Léon Bakst, Max Beerbohm, J.-E. Blanche, etc. Composers: Vincent d'Indy, Igor Stravinsky.
Each plate preceeded by unnumbered leaf with title.
"D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, U.S.A."--T.p. verso.
"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.
Library has unnumbered copy of the large-paper edition in publisher's original slipcase.
In buckram drop-spine case with leather label.
Description
xxv, [1], 154, [4] p., [22] leaves of plates : ill., (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Provenance
Kenneth A. Lohf, New York.
Binding
Publisher's linen spine with dark green boards in white slipcase.
Classification
Department