Swords & roses / Joseph Hergesheimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hergesheimer, Joseph, 1880-1954.

Contributor:

Adler, Elmer, 1884-1962.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.

United States.

History.

Confederate States of America.

United States--Confederate States of America.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Kane, Florence Bayard, 1868-1943 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Rhein, Elizabeth Bayard Kane Norris, 1870-1946 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 327 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Manufacture:

Norwood, Massachusetts : Made by the Plimpton Press.

Other Title:

Swords and roses

Swords and roses.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Alfred A. Knopf, MCMXXIX [1929]

Summary:

Short stories of the South during the Civil War.

Contents:

The deep South.

The pillar of words.

The rose of Mississippi.

Military figure in bronze.

The lonely star.

Shadows on the sea.

The good fighter.

Belle Boyd, or the female spy.

Gold spurs.

The foot soldier.

Notes:

With half-title.

Title page has design of three swords and 6 roses printed in red.

"Joseph Hergesheimer published his first book, 'The Lay Anthony,' in 1914 ... beginning in 1917 with 'The Three Black Pennys,' have all been published first under the present imprint, ... The total has now reached the goodly sum of sixteen 'opera,' not counting reprints, duplications, or the division of the original 'Gold and Iron' into three one story volumes. An account of all these will be found in the condensed bibliography which preceds this colophon."

"American editions of the work of Joseph Hergesheimer (first editions, and first editions under this imprint)": [1] p. at end.

"This book, set on the Monotype in a type called Fournier and printed on paper made by S. D. Warren Co., Boston, Massachusetts ... The title page and binding designs are by Elmer Adler."

Price from dustjacket.

Gray cloth boards lettered in black with red rules and design of 3 swords and 9 roses on front cover. Back cover has "Borzoi Books" emblem stamped in lower right hand corner. Top edge stained red.

Short stories of the South during the Civil War.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to "Florence Bayard Kane from Elizabeth Kane Rhein on S. S. Roma for Naples. June 21, 1929".

Other Format:

Online version: Hergesheimer, Joseph, 1880-1954. Swords & roses.

ISBN:

0836926501 :

9780836926507

OCLC:

20910133