The Unpublishable Memoirs

THE BIBLIOFIENDS. DRAWN BY OLIVER HERFORD
BY A. S. W. ROSENBACH
NEW YORK MITCHELL KENNERLEY MCMXVII
COPYRIGHT 1917 BY MITCHELL KENNERLEY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES BY THE VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY BINGHAMTON - - NEW YORK
TO R. R.
CONTENTS

It was very cruel.
He was dickering for one of the things he had desired for a life-time.
It was in New York at one of the famous book-stores of the metropolis. The proprietor had offered to him for one hundred and sixty dollars—exactly the amount he had in bank—the first and only edition of the Unpublishable Memoirs of Beau Brummel, a little volume issued in London in 1790, and one of two copies known, the other being in the famous hidden library of the British Museum.