16                             /. Howard Woolmer

During the next thirty-seven years the Cohns together, and
Margie alone after the Captain's death in 1953, published sixteen
volumes in the series, all in limitations ranging between 200 and
300 copies and at prices that rose from the $2.00 charged for the
Strong book to j{8.5o for the last book published in the series in
1969. Each book in the series also had an extra twenty-six lettered
copies that were for the use of the author, for copyright, and for
review; these lettered copies were never sold. Many of the leading
autliors of the past half century were included in the series, and
all but three of the books were signed by the authors; the Gals¬
worthy and the Wolfe volumes were issued posthumously, and
Hemingway refused to sign his for reasons that are noted below.
Following is a complete list of the books published in the series;
readers desiring more information shoidd consult George Bixby's
checklist in the September/October 1980 issue of American Book
Collector:

1932: L.A.G. Strong, A Defense of Ignorance

1933: Ernest Hemingway, God Rest You Merry Gentlevien

3.   1933: John Galsworthy, Author and Critic

4.   1939: Stephen Vincent Benet, Bd/W of tie Dji^e'i/Wercy

5.   1939: Thomas Wolfe, A Note on Experts: Dexter
Vespasian Joyner

6.   1940: Robert Nathan, The Concert

7.   1940: William Saroyan, A Special Announcement
1944: W. Somerset Maugham, The Unconquered
1945: Booth Tarkington, Lady Hamilton and Her Nelson
1949: James Farrell, A Misunderstanding
1951: Robert Frost, Hard Not to Be King
1954: T.S. Eliot, Religious Drama: Medieval and Modern

13.   1957: Eudora Welty, A Place in Fiction

14.   1962: MaihnneAioore,The Absentee

15.   1964: Tennessee Williams, Grayjii

16.   1969: Robert Duncan, The Truth & Life of Myth:
An Essay in Essential Autobiography