The First Book of The Authors Club, New York: The Authors Club, numbered 51 of 250 at limitations page, signed by the 109 authors featured including Samuel Clemens, W.D. Howells, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Dudley Warner, Frank R. Stockton, F. Hopkinson Smith, E.C. Stedman, Henry Van Dyke, and others after their respective works; with The Second Book of The Authors Club, New York: The Authors Club, 1921, numbered 21 of 250 at limitations page, signed by the 129 authors featured including George W. Cable, Robert W. Chambers, George Wharton Edwards, George Bird Grinnell, Henry Holt, and others after their respective works; each in full brown leather with gilt decorated boards and spines, housed in later cloth slipcases with morocco spine label, folio, 14 x 6-1/4 x 10 in. (overall in slipcases)
Provenance: (second book) Thomas A. Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, Wisconsin (writeup loose to book); Property of a South Carolina Collector
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(second book) Thomas A. Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, Wisconsin (writeup loose to book); Property of a South Carolina Collector
bindings shaken, wear to extremities; first book with scuffs and losses to leather throughout, surface dirt, bumped corners, toning to deckled edges, some minor foxing throughout text block which is otherwise tight and clean; second book with front hinge beginning, losses to leather at hinges, corners, and along edges, foxing to prefatory pages, text block is otherwise tight, bright, and clean
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