Imperial city / a novel by Elmer Rice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rice, Elmer, 1892-1967.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Rice, Elmer, 1892-1967 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 554 pages ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

[New York?] : Printed in the United States of America at the Van Rees Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Coward-McCann Inc., 1937.

Notes:

Author's second published novel.

With half-title.

"Copyright, 1937, by Elmer Rice."

"In 'Imperial City' ... the whole city is his province, and he presents an astonishing, kaleidoscopic picture of the lives of men and women of all races, creeds, of the highest social circles and of the lowest, whose destinies are directly or indirectly linked with each other ..."--Cf. Dustjacket.

Price from dustjacket.

Back of dustjacket has portrait of Elmer Rice by K. S. Woerner.

Tan cloth lettered, ruled, decorated in maroon. Top edge stained red.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is a "Presentation Copy" signed by Elmer Rice.

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

OCLC:

286019