Liber Scriptorum Second Book Authors, Signed (7 results)

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. Full brown pebbled morocco, lettered in gilt, dentilled edges, deckled text block edges with top edge in gilt. Front cover detached but present, rear joint weak but holding; covers rubbed with exposure along portions of edges and at corners, with portions of leather a bit spotted. Interior fully intact and clean. Edition limited to 251 copies, this copy out of series. xx,584 pp., errata slip bound in at rear. Table of Contents reads like a Who's Who of the early 20th-century New York publishing and antiquarian world, with contributions by Charles Dexter Allen, Irving Bacheller, Henry A. Beers, Richard Rogers Bowker, George Washington Cable, Robert W. Chambers, Frank Crane, Walter Phelps Dodge, George Wharton Edwards, John Erskine, Arthur Guiterman, Henry Holt, Ernest Ingersoll, Tudor Jenks, Charles de Kay, George Frederick Kunz, John Uri Lloyd, George Barr McCutcheon, Brander Matthews, Edward Page Mitchell, William Henry Pickering, Ralph Pulitzer, George Haven Putnam, Don C. Seitz, Preston William Slosson, Albert Payson Terhune, Carl Van Doren, Henry Van Dyke, and many more -- a total of 129, each entry (many of which are published here for the first time) hand-signed by its author excepting (according to a note on p. xx) nine in facsimile due to death or blindness. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Authors Club (illustrator). tall 4to. original pebbled cloth, gilt on front board and spine. xx, 584 pages. Limited to 251 numbered copies with 129 prose of poetry, with many being signed by their respected author (BAL 2389). Front board nearly detached, wear to the tail of the spine, minor rubbing to spine, else a near fine copy. Table of Contents reads like a Who's Who of the early 20th-century New York publishing and antiquarian world, with contributions by Charles Dexter Allen, Irving Bacheller, Henry A. Beers, Richard Rogers Bowker, George Washington Cable, Robert W. Chambers, Frank Crane, Walter Phelps Dodge, George Wharton Edwards, John Erskine, Arthur Guiterman, Henry Holt, Ernest Ingersoll, Tudor Jenks, Charles de Kay, George Frederick Kunz, John Uri Lloyd, George Barr McCutcheon, Brander Matthews, Edward Page Mitchell, William Henry Pickering, Ralph Pulitzer, George Haven Putnam, Don C. Seitz, Preston William Slosson, Albert Payson Terhune, Carl Van Doren, Henry Van Dyke, and many more -- a total of 129, each entry (many of which are published here for the first time) hand-signed by its author excepting (according to a note on p. xx) nine in facsimile due to death or blindness. original pebbled cloth, gilt on front board and spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. [Profusely signed Anthology] 129 literary pieces, 126 of them signed by the authors, as issued. Authors include: Henry Augustin Beers, Richard Edwin Day, William Henry Pickering, Albert Shaw, George Washington Cable, Walter Phelps Dodge, John Erskine, Carl Van Doren and many others. Bound in contemporary brown cloth, with gilt spine lettering. Front joint frayed and cracked. Top edge gilt. Marbled end sheets. xx, [2], 582, [2] pp. Limited edition of 251 copies. (This copy out of sequence.) 3 pieces were not signed, due to illness, etc. as noted in the postscript. Signed.

Hardcover. Folio, original cloth, gilt title on spine. Lomited to 250 copies, signed by most of the 129 contributors, including Bacheller, George W. Cable, Robert W. Chambers, George Wharton Edwards, George Bird Grinnell, Henry Holt, Rossiter Johnson, Ralph Pulitzer, and others. Very Good.

Hardcover. Unnumbered copy of 251 printed. 129 pieces of prose and poetry, each signed by the author, except for 12 omissions (due to death, illness or blindness) as noted in the book. Full leather, 13.5x9", xx+584 pp, b&w decorations. Inner rear hinge cracked, otherwise solid, clean, VG.; Signed by Author.

NY 1921. 13.5x9", cloth, 583pp, t.e.g., f.e.p. slightly torn with couple rubbed marks, corners bumped, covers worn. LIMITED TO 251 NUMBERED COPIES (this one out-of-series). COLLECTION SIGNED BY THE RESPECTIVE AUTHOR AT END OF THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS. INCLUDES IRVING BACHELLER, GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE, ROBERT WILLIAM CHAMBERS, GEORGE WHARTON EDWARDS, GEORGE BIRD GRINELL, JOHN URI LLOYD, GEORGE BARR MCCUTCHEON, ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE, HENRY VAN DYKE, CARL VAN DOREN, etc., etc.

CABLE, George Washington, ed. Liber Scriptorum. The Second Book of the Authors Club. Thick 4to. Orig. gilt-decorated morocco, t.e.g. N.Y.: The Author's Club, 1921. First (only) edition. Limited to 251 copies. Each piece is signed by its author which includes George Barr McCutcheon, George Washington Cable, Carl Van Doren, et al. A fine copy. Signed.