Seventh Year Book (of the Bibliophile Society)
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1908. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Pp. 150. Bound in brown paper-covered boards with printed label on spine. Spine label a bit discolored. Foxing to prelims. Printed at the DeVinne Press. One of five hundred copies. Very Good. Item #1651
With the usual reports from the society's council, including a report from the publications committee, the treasurer's report, a necrology of society members who have passed away, the club's constitution and by-laws, etc. Also, unique to this annual, the discovery of inconsistencies between the first edition of Thoreau's Walden and a (then) recently discovered draft in Thoreau's hand, an unpublished letter by J. Fenimore Cooper, an unpublished letter from Robert Fulton to President Monroe, and "the Literary Underworld" by Charles E. Hurd.
Price: $30.00