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 ...

"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"
"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's copy is unnumbered.
Authors contributing: Maurice Barrès, Sarah Bernhardt, Laurence Binyon, etc. Artists: Léon Bakst, Max Beerbohm, J.-E. Blanche, etc. Composers: Vincent d'Indy, Igor Stravinsky.
Each plate accompanied by letterpress cover sheet and tissue guard.
"D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, U.S.A."--Title page verso.
Illustrated title page and two other decorations by Rudolph Ruzicka.
Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt.