Authors digest; the world's great stories in brief
Title:
Authors digest; the world's great stories in brief
Author:
Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931, editor.
Personal Author:
Edition:
Autograph edition.
Publication Information:
[New York] : Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, 1908.
Physical Description:
20 volumes : color illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Each volume contains special t.p. and frontispiece.
Illuminated certificate in v. 1: "No. 6, Autograph edition, limited to thirty-two numbered copies of twenty volumes each. This set was prepared for Rebecca Warner Thayer and contains an original autographed article written by Mark Twain."
Twain's article, The Californian's tale, by Samuel L. Clemens, is signed "Mark Twain" and is tipped into v. 1; it originally appeared in the Authors Club Liber Scriptorum; this copy trimmed and illuminated with colored pictorial initial, head-pieces and tail-piece.
Anna Katherine Green's The Leavenworth case appears in v. 9, p. 239-257, in an abridged version by the author.
Purchased with funds from the Kideney gift, 1993.
Language:
English
Local Note:
Bound in half dark blue morocco, with gilt spine and cloth endpapers; top edge gilt.
Added Title:
Californian's tale.
Leavenworth case.
Format :
Book