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The Borzoi 1925 : being a sort of record of ten years of publishing.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 M5223 A925b
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Z473 .K72 1925
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.
- Cather, Willa.
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923.
- Mansfield, Katherine.
- Garnett, David, 1892-1981.
- Garnett, David.
- Newman, Ernest, 1868-1959.
- Newman, Ernest.
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
- Van Vechten, Carl.
- Adams, Frederick B. (Frederick Baldwin), 1910-2001--Library.
- Adams, Frederick B.
- Adams, Frederick B. (Frederick Baldwin), 1910-2001.
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc--Catalogs.
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Borzoi books--Bibliography.
- Borzoi books.
- Publishers' catalogs--New York (State).
- Publishers' catalogs.
- New York (State).
- United States--Imprints--Catalogs.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Bibliographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Hess, Frances C., Mrs. (donor) (RBC copy Z473 K72 1925)
- University of Pennsylvania. Library (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy AC9 M5223 A925b)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, xii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 351 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 29 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits (1 color) ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [1925]
- Contents:
- Part One. Written Especially For The Borzoi, 1925. Emissary from the kingdom of letters / J. Brooks Atkinson
- The history of civilization series / Harry Elmer Barnes
- A letter / Charles A. Beard
- Miss Cather / Thomas Beer
- Thomas Mann / Edwin Bjorkman
- The romance and mystery of Tertium Organum / Claude Bragdon
- Kahlil the Gibranite / Witter Bynner
- Katherine Mansfield / Willa Cather
- David Garnett / A.E. Coppard
- Sigrid Undset / Mildred Cram
- An impression of Ladislas Reymont (Author of the Peasants) / William Cummings
- The dark tower / Walter de la Mare
- Truthfuller than Tolstoi! (Harvey Fergusson) / Floyd Dell
- A bibliography of the works of J.S. Fletcher (Compiled by himself) / J.S. Fletcher
- Thomas Beer / Wilson Follett
- Literary evening: Iowa style / John T. Frederick
- T.F. Powys / David Garnett
- G.B. Stern / Louis Golding
- Will Irwin / James Henle
- Mr. H.L. Mencken / Joseph Hergesheimer
- Lover finds something out (A poem) / Richard Hughes
- Mary Borden / Storm Jameson
- Geoffrey Dennis / Llewellyn Jones
- Accumulated mail / D.H. Lawrence
- Clarence Day, Jr. / Newman Levy
- Westward Ho! / Haldane MacFall
- Memorandum / H.L. Mencken
- Hergey / George Jean Nathan
- Madame Landowska / Ernest Newman
- The poetry of Witter Bynner / James Oppenheim
- A.E. Coppard / Roland Pertwee
- Whose children / Julia Peterkin
- Arthur Machen / M.P. Shiel
- Paul Bunyan / Lee J. Smits
- Walter de la Mare / G.B. Stern
- Bee blood / James Stevens
- Thyra Samter Winslow's short stories / Ruth Suckow
- Frank Swinnerton / Frank Swinnerton
- Concerning textbooks and their perpetrators / Paul B. Thomas
- A song for February (A poem) / Eunice Tietjens
- Fender-fishing with Mr. Nathan / Carl Van Doren
- Ernest Newman / Carl Van Vechten
- The hunt is up: the morn is bright and gray / Henrie Waste
- Hugh Wiley / John V.A. Weaver
- Let X equal zoo / Hugh Wiley
- John V.A. Weaver / Thyra Samter Winslow.
- Carl Van Vechten / Elinor Wylie
- A note on D.H. Lawrence / Francis Brett Young
- Part Two. A Brief Who's Who of Writers Particularly Identified With The Borzoi
- Part Three. A Bibliography of All Borzoi Books Published From the Beginning to June 30th, 1925.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- Title printed within double-ruled and decorated border.
- First appearances of Thomas Beer's Miss Cather, Willa Cather's Katherine Mansfield, A.E. Coppard's David Garnett, Floyd Dell's Truthfuller than Tolstoi!, D.H. Lawrence's Accumulated mail, H.L. Mencken's Memorandum, Julia Peterkin's Whose children, Carl Van Vechten's Ernest Newman & Elinor Wylie's Carl Van Vechten, plus a bibliography of all Borzoi books published "from the beginning to June 30th, 1925." (p. 271-351)
- " ... there were printed in the month of December five hundred copies ..."-- Colophon.
- "The book was designed by Elmer Adler and the composition, printing & binding done by The Plimpton Press, Norwood."--Colophon.
- Black cloth spine with maroon and white paper patterned boards. Endpapers decorated with blue and gray Borzoi Books emblem. Top edge stained.
- "Bibliography of Borzoi Books": pages 271-351.
- Local Notes:
- "... printed in the month of December five thousand copies on laid India tint paper ... " -- Colophon, (RBC copy (AC9 M5223 A925b and Culture Class Collection copy AC9 K7573 Q925b)
- No illustrations in RBC copy (Z473 K72 1925)
- Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 K7573 Q925b) has label of Aries Buffalo.
- Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 K7573 Q925b) has list of The Borzoi Pocket Books, nos. 1-11 laid in.
- Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 M5223 A925b) is presumed second printing: On p. [353]: '... there were printed in the month of December five thousand copies ...". Two states: Cather's birth year on p. 246 uncorrected, and corrected by hand. Culture Class Collection copy is uncorrected (1867).
- Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 M5223 A925b) has embossed stamp of University of Pennsylvania Library.
- Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 M5223 A925b) has marginal marks.
- Cited in:
- Schrader, R.J. : H. L. Mencken. University of Pittsburgh, p. 442
- OCLC:
- 406289
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