Consider "The Oyster"

I fell in love with this little book as soon as I opened the slim volume and saw the goofy illustrations. It's very Alice in Wonderland. Below is one of the other news stories about the Keach collection. It presents him as a whimsical rich gentleman, showering random libraries with rare books wherever he goes. I love it. Enjoy.

From The San Antonio Light March 30, 1917:

....Presents Books to Carnegie Library:

J.R. Keach of Chicago Makes Gift of Several Hundred He Collected

"A valuable collection of several hundred books has been presented to the Carnegie Library by J. R. Keach of Chicago, who is stopping at the Traveler's Hotel. Mr. Keach explained that he collects books for the pleasure of collecting, and that when he assembles a large number, he presents them to some library. This is the second large gift of books that has been made by Mr. Keach to the Carnegie Library.

The present collection presents a varied assortment, philosophy, history, poetry, travel, biography, fairy stories and folk lore, essays, to say nothing of valuable editions of classics and rare and unusaul books in Italian, Latin, German, French and English. "The Oyster" is one of the curious books in the collection and one of the most beautifully bound. There is a beautiful edition of Don Quixote in four volumes, Shakespeare's sonnets in Roycroft binding, to say nothing of innumerable others. "The Rose Garden of Persia," a translation of early Persian poetry complied by Louisa Stuart Costello, is one of the most artistic and beautiful in the collection."