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.

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Title

Liber Scriptorum - The Second Book of the Authors Club [Limited to 250 copies, with approx. 120 author signatures]

Publisher

The Authors Club, New York

Publication Date

1921

Binding

Full-Leather

Edition

Limited Edition.

Condition

Good

Dust Jacket Condition

N/A

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Signed by Author(s)

Book Type

Book

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The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. Hours by appointment or chance April through October, closed winters. Do drop by and browse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. If traveling from a distance, please call ahead to be sure that we're not off at another auction! Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel.

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Full refund guaranteed on any misrepresented item returned in original condition within 30 days of receipt. We use standard ABAA grading terminology and make every attempt to represent the condition of our books accurately. For terminology, please see "A B C for Book Collectors," by John Carter, as revised by Nicolas Barker. Saucony Book Shop is a sole proprietorship registered with the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury as EIN 99-1955307.

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