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Published by The Bibliophile Society, Boston, 1908
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. 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. 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between the first edition of Thoreau's Walden and a (then) recently discovered draft in Thoreau's hand, an unpublished letter by J. Fenimore Cooper, an unpublished letter from Robert Fulton to President Monroe, and "the Literary Underworld" by Charles E. Hurd.