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Franklin Evans, or, The inebriate : a tale of the times / by Walter Whitman ; with introduction by Emory Holloway.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection 811W L1929 Whitman copy
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection 811W L1929 Whitman copy 2
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LIBRA PS3222 .F7 1929
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Author/Creator:
Contributor:
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Fiction.
Penn Provenance:
  • Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones (former owner) (Whitman Collection copy 1 & 2)
Physical Description:
xxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 248 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Manufacture:
Boston : Printed by D.B. Updike [at] Merrymount Press.
Other Title:
  • Franklin Evans
  • Inebriate
Place of Publication:
New York : Random House, MDCCCCXXIX [1929]
Notes:
  • "Seven hundred copies of Franklin Evans were printed by D.B. Updike The Merrymount Press Boston"--Colophon.
  • "Unprinted glassine dust jacket."--Myerson.
  • "Some copies have a white paper label on the front pastedown endpaper stating that the copy was presented at the occasion of 'the get-together in honor of collected books April twenty-sixth MDCCCCXXXII"--Myerson.
Local Notes:
  • Whitman Collection copies 1 and 2 purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Franklin Julian Sprague.
  • Whitman Collection copy 1 has paper slip with manuscript notes in pencil laid in.
  • Whitman Collection copy 1: many leaves unopened at fore-edge.
  • Whitman Collection copy 1 without dust jacket; without white paper label on front pastedown.
  • Whitman Collection copy 2 has presentation bookplate (Myerson's "white paper label") with blank for the name of the recipient affixed to front pastedown.
  • Whitman Collection copy 2 without dust jacket.
Cited in:
Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, A 1.2, pages 6-7
Other Format:
Online version: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Franklin Evans.
OCLC:
1335046

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