The book of the homeless = (Le livre des sans-foyer) : original articles in verse and prose, illustrations reproduced from original paintings & drawings / edited by Edith Wharton ...

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• World War, 1914-1918.

Physical Description:

xxv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 154 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 22 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, music (some color) ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Le livre des sans-foyer.

Place of Publication:

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.

Notes:

• On title page, other title information follows editor's name.
• Additional notation on title page: "The book is sold for the benefit of the American hostels for refugees (with the Foyer Franco-Belge) and of the Children of Flanders Rescue Committee."
• Authors contributing: Maurice Barrès, Sarah Bernhardt, Laurence Binyon, etc. Artists: Léon Bakst, Max Beerbohm, J.-E. Blanche, etc. Composers: Vincent d'Indy, Igor Stravinsky.
• Printed notation on recto of last page: "Of this book, in addition to the regular edition, there have been printed and numbered one hundred and seventy-five copies de luxe, of larger format."
• Each plate preceeded by unnumbered leaf with title.
• Verso of title page: D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, U.S.A.
• "The French poems, except M. Rostand's sonnet are translated by Mrs. Wharton."

OCLC:

32125838