Accession number
PML 186673
Creator
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
Published
Detroit : Schuman's, 1937.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First edition.
"Time: 1896-1905, Place: Small South Texas farm"--Half title page.
"This edition, printed by Peter Beilensen at the Walpole Printing Office, Mount Vernon, New York, consists of two hundred fifty copies for sale ..."--Colophon.
Library's copy is number five in the author's private series numbered one to six, not for sale.
Library's copy housed in brown cloth clamshell box.
"Time: 1896-1905, Place: Small South Texas farm"--Half title page.
"This edition, printed by Peter Beilensen at the Walpole Printing Office, Mount Vernon, New York, consists of two hundred fifty copies for sale ..."--Colophon.
Library's copy is number five in the author's private series numbered one to six, not for sale.
Library's copy housed in brown cloth clamshell box.
Description
65 pages ; 26 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on front flyleaf: For my dear Monroe, from you faithful but absentminded [signed] Katherine Anne, with love, New York, March 17, 1937; signed by the author in ink below colophon as issued; author's inscription in ink below colophon: Dear Monroe, no wonder I couldn't find your copy -- I had dedicated it by mistake to my father! But here it is! [signed] Katherine Anne, May 18, 1937.
Provenance
Inscribed to Monroe Wheeler; Carter Burden.
Binding
Brown and white textured paper boards with orange and green printed label on front panel, housed in green paper board slipcase as issued.
Classification
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