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The affair at the inn / by Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mary Findlater, Jane Findlater, Allan McAulay.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 1856-1923, author.
- Findlater, Mary, 1865-1963, author.
- Findlater, Jane Helen, 1866-1946, author.
- McAulay, Allan, 1863-1918, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hotels--Fiction.
- Hotels.
- Americans--England--Fiction.
- Americans.
- Dartmoor (England)--Fiction.
- Dartmoor (England).
- Bookbinding--Specimens.
- Bookbinding.
- England--Description and travel--Fiction.
- England.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels
- Fiction
- Specimens
- Novels.
- Diary fiction.
- Pictorial cloth bindings
- Signed bindings. -- 1904.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Perkins, Thomas (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 1856-1923 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [8], 220, [2] pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Manufacture:
- Cambridge : The Riverside Press.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ; and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904.
- Notes:
- Publisher's advertisement on preliminary page [2].
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: "Bound in beige cloth with black house and an orange motor car, orange type on cover and spine, black ruled borders on both covers, central image of motor car on back cover in orange with black. Title page design appears also to be by Iorio." -- Minsky.
- Athenaeum copy: Stamped on t.p.: "Received Oct 13 1904, The Athenaeum."
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has armorial bookplate ("Ex Libris Thomas Perkins") on front pastedown.5
- Schimmel Collection copy has manuscript note ("I am responsible for the American heroine & the love story in this bit of nonsensical collaboration, done in a lovely little farm house on Dartmoor, in a week of rain.") signed by the author on front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- Minsky, Richard. American decorated publishers' bindings, 1872-1929
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923. Affair at the inn.
- OCLC:
- 967291
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