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Goat Green or The better gift / by Theodore Francis Powys; engravings by Gwenda Morgan.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC9 P8758 937g
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powys, Theodore Francis, 1875-1953.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Powys, Theodore Francis, 1875-1953 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 61 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : including frontispiece, illustrations ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Better gift
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937.
- Notes:
- "Printed at the Golden Cockrel Press, London, in Perpetua type on Arnold's hand-made paper and complete on the 26th day of October, 1937. The Edition is limited to 150 numbered copies. (There will also be an Unlimited Edition.)"
- "The story 'Goat Green' was written in 1931. It was later included in 'Bottle's Path' under the title 'The Better Gift,' which is the title it bears in manuscript."--Cf. Riley.
- Canvas boards with dark green morocco spine lettered in gold. Top edge gilt; fore and bottom edges untrimmed.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy is no. 90 signed Theodore Francis Powys.
- Culture Class Collection copy has carbon copy of catalog card laid in.
- Cited in:
- Riley, P. Bibl. of T. F. Powys, A31
- OCLC:
- 5912032
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