The History of the Salmagundi Club as it Appeared in the New York Herald Tribune Magazine on Sunday December Eighteenth [18th] Nineteen Twenty Seven [1927]

Title: The History of the Salmagundi Club as it Appeared in the New York Herald Tribune Magazine on Sunday December Eighteenth [18th] Nineteen Twenty Seven [1927]

Author: Shelton, William Henry

Publication: [New York]: Privately Printed, 1927.

Description: A history of New York's Salmagundi Club, one of the oldest fine arts organizations in the United States, signed by the author William Henry Shelton, the first librarian of the club. First edition in book form. Limited to 1000 copies. Frontispiece portrait of the author and in-text illustrations. Printed by the Charles Francis Press on Navarre pure rag paper. Bound in quarter black cloth with blue paper over boards, stamped in gilt with the logo of the Salmagundi Club, with printed paper label on spine. 9.75 x 6.5 inches; [2], 20, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates. From the collection of Arthur Williams Hall (1873–1952) of Massachusetts, bibliophile and manufacturer of laboratory equipment; thence by descent through three generations. Uneven sunning to rear cover, toned spine label, small dampstain to margin of frontispiece, else internally clean. Very Good. Worldcat shows one institutional copy.