The devil & Daniel Webster / by Stephen Vincent Benét. Now printed with an appreciation by Henry Seidel Canby and wood-engravings by Fritz Eichenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943.

Contributor:

Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961.

Eichenberg, Fritz, 1901-1990.

Ellis, Richard W. (Richard Williamson), 1895-1982.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852--Fiction.

Webster, Daniel.

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Borneman, Henry Stauffer, 1870-1955 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Ellis, Richard W. (Richard Williamson), 1895-1982 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 32 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Kingsport, Tenne. : Kingsport Press, [1945]

Notes:

With half-title.

"The Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby together with the Illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg, Copyright 1945 by Kingsport Press, Inc."

"This special edition of The Devil & Daniel Webster was composed in 14pt Monotype Bell from the text in The Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét, published in 1939 by Farrar and Rinehart. It was planned by Richard Ellis and produced under his direction by The Kingsport Press in an edition of fourteen hundred and seventy-five copies, printed from type upon an all-rag paper."--Printer's Note.

Green cloth spine lettered in gilt with decorative paper covered boards.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has inscription of Henry Borneman 1945.

Culture Class Collection copy has [4] p. leaflet stating this book was presented "with the best wishes of the Kingsport Press" signed Richard Ellis.

OCLC:

1964465