first edition Hardcover
1916 · New York
New York: Hearst's International Library Co, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 121pp. Portrait photographs. Printed cloth. Small ink number on front fly, a little foxing on the cloth, three tiny holes in frotn gutter, a handsome, very good or better copy. After dinner speech anecdotes by many famous men and women including Ethel Barrymore, August Belmont, John Burroughs, Enrico Caruso, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas A. Edison, Charles Dana Gibson, Richard Harding Davis, Henry Ford, Samuel Gompers, De Wolf Hopper, Christy Mathewson, W. Somerset Maugham, Emmeline Pankhurst, Ernest Shackleton, Orville Wright, and many, many more. (Inventory #: (truncated)