Heading: (Hoover, Herbert Clark)
Author: Purrington, Benjamin Allen
Title: Saul - Bohemian Club Grove Play for 1940, signed by Herbert Hoover, Edgar Bergan, Leo Carrillo, and many other members
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Bohemian Club
Date Published: 1940
Description:

(8vo) original cloth backed boards, paper spine label. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. First Edition.

From the library of noted actor, bibliophile, and Bohemian Club member Jean Hersholt, with his bookplate on rear pastedown. Signed by the author and approximately 30 Bohemian Club members, including Herbert Hoover, Ferdinand Bergdorff (with a small sketch of the "Lamp of Fellowship"), Dorman Smith (with a small sketch of an owl), Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy (with a small sketch of the latter), cartoonist Leo Carrillo (with a small sketch), Carlton E. Morse, and with a wonderful sketch of a cabin at the Grove by Haig Patigian, inscribed to Hersholt "Dear Jean, This is a reminder of the 'Green Mask' where the welcome is always on the 'mat' for you." Laid in is a broadside for the 1940 "Low Jinks" production of Streamlined Harem, and four real-photo post cards, three of the 1940 production of Saul and one from that year's opening ceremonies.

Spine label lightly edge worn; near fine.