[Rogers, Bruce] The Footlight Club; One Hundredth Performance. A Scrap of Paper.

Eliot Hall, Jamaica Plain: The Riverside Press, 1906.

First edition. The Deluxe Edition, bound in dark burgundy morocco over flexible boards with gilt lettering to front cover (the standard edition was bound in cloth of a similar shade). Printed under the direction of Bruce Rogers, gilt decorated endpapers, all edges gilt. The title page decoration was later reused by Rogers for the Centenary of William Makepeace Thackeray meeting at the Club of Odd Volumes in 1911, and subsequently reproduced in Frederic Wardeís BR bibliography (1925) and Typographic Trivialities (item #9 in this list). The Footlight Club is the oldest continuously-running community theater group in the United States of America, having performed every year since 1877. Rubbing and edge-wear, with the leather worn and chipped from the lower tip of the front cover (other corners worn). Upper spine tip chipped. Very scarce. The only copy currently for sale online. Grolier 141a.

Price: $550.00   Item #4713