I wonder why you say this. I've always been surprised that the Bibliophile Society was, apparently, an organization whose members didn't meet on a regular basis and which, apparently, didn't sponsor activities. It certainly DID publish books which many bibliophiles of the first two decades of the 20th century appreciated, and which are, clearly, of sufficient interest for YOU to have acquired. The Society's 1920 yearbook, published when the Society had been in operation for about 20 years, lists such presumably fraud-resistent bibliophiles as Henry E. Huntington and a number of prominent, and presumably fraud-resistent, libraries as members. (I doubt that a fraudulent operation would have remained undetected by sophisticated individuals and libraries after 20 years.) The Society appears to simply have been an earlier, more limited, Limited Editions Club, whose publications were more than simply classics reprinted in stylish formats.The Bibliophile Society was, I think, something of a fraud, but I may be quite wrong.
Harper seems to have been on the margin of the sophisticated (and exclusive) book world. He was not a member of The Grolier Club or of The Club of Odd Volumes. I own a number of the year books, &c. of The Bibliophile Society (which I take to be his private operation) and a few of his other publications, but not the ones that go for $$$. Many volumes were printed on thick acidic deckled paper or on acidic "Japan vellum," bound in paper-covered boards. Are there papers extant of HHH? Who knows who he was? If you know, please let ME know. Thanks for help! -- Marcus A. McCorison mamcc@worldnet.att.net