The Trees / by Conrad Richter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richter, Conrad, 1890-1968.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Borzoi book

A Borzoi book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--Juvenile fiction.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Pioneers--Fiction.

Pioneers.

Ohio--Fiction.

Ohio.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Wolf, Stanley J. (bookplate) (stamp) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

14 unnumbered pages, 302 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.

Notes:

With half-title.

First novel of "The Awakening Land" trilogy.

"This book was set on the Linotype in Janson, a recutting made direct from the type cast from matrices (now in possession of the Stempel foundry, Frankfurt am Main) made by Anton Janson some time between 1660 and 1687 ... The book was designed by W. A. Dwiggins; composed by The Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts; printed and bound by H. Wolff, New York. The paper was made by P. H. Glatfelter Company, Spring Grove, Pa."

Light blue cloth boards decorated in dark blue and lettered in red on front cover and spine. Borzoi emblem in lower right hand corner of back cover.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has bookplate on front pastedown: "Ex-Libris S. & E. Wolf".

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has stamp on front flyleaf: "Stanley J. Wolf".

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has ms. note on front flyleaf: "Hope Hildreth Humphreys Southampton, N.Y.".

Culture Class Collection copy has [4] page leaflet reprinted from the February Book-of-the-Month Club News laid in.

OCLC:

287909