The book of the homeless (Le Livre des Sans-Foyer)
Features
Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: London MacMillan and Co.
Place of printing: London
Year of publication: 1916
Product Condition:
Example in good condition. Editorial hardback binding with cloth spine: gilt titles on the spine. Front plate illustrated. There are light dust spots and signs of wear on the edges and corners. Cuts burnished and with traces of dust. Well preserved cards slightly browned. English text. English text. Book in good condition.
Pages: XXV,154
Format: Hardback
Description
Volume promoted by the American writer Edith Wharton to support the project to welcome refugees from the First World War in the American Hostels for Refugees she founded in France: as indicated on the title page, the volume collects “Original Articles in Verse and Prose. Illustrations reproduced from Original Paintings and Drawings”. Wharton managed to involve in her project some of the most prominent personalities of the literary and artistic world of the time: among these Jean Cocteau, Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, Sarah Bernhardt, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Edmond Rostand, George Santayana, Igor Stravinsky, WB Yeats, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin. The preface is entrusted to Theodore Roosevelt
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