The collector's whatnot; a compendium, manual, and syllabus of information and advice on all subjects appertaining to the collection of antiques, both ancient and not so ancient. / Compiled by Cornelius Obenchain Van Loot, Milton Kilgallen, and Murgatroyd Elphinstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946.

Contributor:

Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957.

Kahler, Hugh McNair, 1883-1969.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiques--Anecdotes.

Antiques.

Authors, American.

Maine.

Authors, American--Maine.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

xx, 147 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin Company ; Cambridge : The Riverside Press, 1923.

Notes:

With half-title.

Title printed within orange decorated border.

"The First Edition of 'The Collector's Whatnot' consists of 3127 copies, as follows: Twenty-seven on choicest domestic leaf, bound in teakwood, with leather hinges, numbered A to &, with the Author's thumb-prints in red ink in each copy. Three thousand one hundred copies on American antique wove bound in manila boards."

Contains [17] full-page drawings done by Tarkington not counted in pagination.

Each chapter has headpiece, an illuminated initial and ornamental rule below title on each page of text.

Publisher's advertisements: [8] p. at end.

"Published pesudonymously. Tarkington here used the pen name 'Milton Kilgallen' (his co-authors were Kenneth L. Roberts and Hugh M Kahler) ... Three chapters were written by Tarkington: Hints for buying from original sources; Old rugs, old iron[,] old brass, old glass; A word on pooning."--Cf. Russo

Orange brown paper boards with light green paper label on front cover printed in orange brown and black.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy spine partially disbound.

Culture Class Collection copy has inscription "Indianapolis May 25 '24. For a good editor from one of three Bad, Bad Writers" above an illustration of man with cap and hammer.

Culture Class Collection copy has label of Beach's Bookshop Indianapolis.

Cited in:

Russo, D. R. & Sullivan, T. L. : Bibliography of Booth Tarkington, p. 70-71.

OCLC:

1484793