Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer / by Stephen Vincent Benét ; drawings by Charles Child.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943.

Contributor:

Child, Charles, 1902-1980.

Orton, Vrest, 1897-1986.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943 (autograph) (RBC and Culture Class Collection copies 1 & 2)

Child, Charles, 1902- (autograph) (RBC and Culture Class Collection copies 1 && 2)

Physical Description:

78 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Johnny Pye & the fool killer

Johnny Pye and the fool-killer

Place of Publication:

Weston, Vermont : The Countryman Press, [1938]

Notes:

Half-title page has "1938" printed above the title and "Benét" printed below.

"Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer ... is printed in Janson on Archer paper from the design of Vrest Orton. It is signed by both author and artist and is limited to 750 numbered copies of which 700 copies are for sale".

Price from brown paper wrap-around band: Limited, Signed Edition ($3.50).

Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine. Yellow endpapers.

Local Notes:

Penn library has copy 688.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 is no. 138 signed by Stephen Vincent Benét and Charles Child.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 is "Editorial Copy" signed by Stephen Vincent Benét and Charles Child.

Culture Class Colllection copy 2 has red slip from Countryman Press requesting a review for this book laid in.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has publisher's brown paper printed wrap-around band.

OCLC:

3622633