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Jennie Gerhardt / a novel by Theodore Dreiser author of "Sister Carrie," etc.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 D8144 911jb
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women household employees--United States--Fiction.
- Women household employees.
- United States.
- Unmarried mothers--United States--Fiction.
- Unmarried mothers.
- Man-woman relationships--United States--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- MacManus, Marequita Páez (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 430 pages, 14 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- [Reprint Edition.].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : A. L. Burt Publishers Published by arrangement with Harper & Brother, 1911.
- Notes:
- T.p. printed within double-ruled border.
- "Copyright, 1911, by Harper & Brothers. Published October 1911."
- "Sometime between the first Harper impression and the A. L. Burt reprint of 1924, Dreiser cut the epilogue of Jennie Gerhardt, 'In Passing,' p. 432-3. Thus, some Harper impressions contain the epilogue and some do not, but all impressions and editions beginning with the Burt impression do not."--Cf. Pizer.
- Publisher's advertisements "Popular Copyright Books at Moderate Prices": [6] p. at end.
- Red boards lettered in yellow on spine and front cover. Front cover has decoration stamped in black.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to Marequita Páez MacManus by Theodore Dreiser. N.Y. Nov. 18, 1914.
- Culture Class Collection copy has epilogue "In Passing" wanting.
- Cited in:
- Pizer, D. Theodore Dreiser a primary and secondary bibliography, A11-1
- OCLC:
- 249372949
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