Not under forty / by Willa Cather.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.

Jewett, Sarah Orne.

Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923.

Mansfield, Katherine.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, v pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 147 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition. Trade Issue.

Manufacture:

Norwood, Massachusetts : Set up, printed and bound by The Plimpton Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1936.

Contents:

A Chance Meeting

The Novel Démeublé

148 Charles Street

Miss Jewett

"Joseph and his brothers"

Katherine Mansfield.

Notes:

P. [ii] "The Works of Willa Cather" 16 titles with publication dates.

T.p. printed in red and black

"Copyright 1922, 1933, 1936 by Willa Cather."

"The 'body-matter' and the page-numbers are set in Electra, a new linotype face. The 'running-head' words are in linotype Janson."

"The paper was made by Curtis & Brother, Newark, Delaware."

Light yellow-green cloth stamped on front cover in grey-brown with a stylized floral device, surmounted by "W. S. C." Spine stamped in grey-brown. Borzoi Books device stamped at lower right hand corner of back cover in grey-brown. Top edge stained grey-brown; other edges untrimmed.

Price from dust-jacket: $2.00 net.

"Studies of literary personalities and certain aspects of literature. This short book is the first collection of essays Miss Cather has published. Its revealing chapters concern some of the authors she admires and what she admires in them, so that the result is a considerable expression of her convictions about the art of writing generally."--Dust-jacket.

Cream dust-jacket overprinted in deep pink, red orange with lettering in red-orange and blue-green.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.

OCLC:

38740451