[Rarebooks] FS: Tribute to Alfred Knopf SIGNED by 31 including H. L. Mencken, Carl Van Vechten, Whitney Darrow, Knopf, etc., price reduced

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
Sat Nov 3 12:29:01 EDT 2012


Price reduced:     Was $500,      Now $350

[MENCKEN, H. L., et. al.]. ALFRED A. KNOPF. QUARTER CENTURY. n.p.: 
[Plimpton Press], (1940). First Edition. Green cloth with paper labels 
on the spine and front cover. Frontispiece portrait of Knopf by Carl Van 
Vechten. Unstated limitation. A collection of tributes published by a 
group of Knopf's friends called "The Book Table," including Willa 
Cather, H. L. Mencken, Thomas Mann, and others. SIGNED on the two rear 
blanks by 31 members including Van Vechten, Mencken, cartoonist Whitney 
Darrow, Frederic Melcher, Carl Van Doren, Alfred Knopf, Elmer Adler, and 
others. Some sunning to the spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, as 
issued. (#012944)     $350.00

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