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A magnificent farce and other diversions of a book-collector / by A. Edward Newton ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection 811W YN Whitman copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book collecting.
- Books.
- Penn Provenance:
- Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones (former owner) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xx pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 267 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 52 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (1 color), facsimiles, map, portraits ; 22 cm
- Manufacture:
- Boston : McGrath-Sherrill Press.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : The Atlantic Monthly Press, [1921]
- Contents:
- A magnificent farce.
- On commencing author.
- Luck.
- What is the matter with the bookshop?
- A slogan for booksellers.
- "'Tis not in mortals to command success."
- Meditations on a quarto Hamlet.
- Walt Whitman.
- "20."
- Living twenty-five hours a day.
- A sane view of William Blake.
- My old lady, London.
- Notes:
- Printer statement on page [268].
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has unopened leaves.
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "What this author especially prides himself upon, in this volume is the self restraint shown in dealing with the character of Woodrow Wilson. A. Edward Newton. Nov. 14, 1921".
- Whitman Collection copy has paper slip with manuscript notes in pencil laid in.
- Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.
- Whitman Collection copy has clipping from an unidentified publication with letter from A. Edward Newton to "the Lobby" laid in; newspaper clipping from London times literary supplement (1 December 1921) (the name of the publication and the date supplied in manuscript in pencil) with review of this work laid in.
- Other Format:
- Online version: N Edward), 1864-1940. Magnificent farce.
- Online version: Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940. Magnificent farce.
- OCLC:
- 385941
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