McCLURE, Alexander K.

Bohemia. Official Publication of the International League of Press Clubs for the Building and Endowment of the Journalists' Home

First edition. Volume I (all published). Very thick quarto. 410pp. Press Edition De Luxe, limited to 25 copies. Full green morocco gilt with elaborate gilt stamping, presentation lettering on the spine, inside front board gilt embossed, inside rear board with embossed color-printed illustration on cloth. Binding a trifle rubbed, red silk moire covered endpaper detached, else near fine. Stated "This volume is Number One and is especially made for Harriet Hayden Finck, in commemoration of her unanimous election as President of the Pennsylvania Women's Press Association..." Finck, a distant relative of Harriet Beecher Stowe, was married to a prominent Philadelphia physician and was active socially and in the arts. The purpose of this book, endorsed by President Theodore Roosevelt, was to provide funds for a retirement home for aged journalists. Among the many contributors are Mary Baker Eddy, Julia Ward Howe, Palmer Cox, Frank Beard, Jacob A. Riis, John Philip Sousa, Thomas Moran, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Elbert Hubbard, Admiral Dewey, and Belva Lockwood. Within this specially bound copy are many original mounted photographs, many of which are Signed or Inscribed to Mrs. Finck. Included among the autographs are many noted opera stars, baseball player and evangelist Billy Sunday and his wife, and two long and excellent Inscriptions by Belva Lockwood. Additionally, loosely laid into the book are a letter from Dorothy Dix and some additional photographs.

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