Sapphira and the slave girl / 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)

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Fiction.

Slavery.

Husband and wife--Fiction.

Husband and wife.

Jealousy--Fiction.

Jealousy.

Virginia--Fiction.

Virginia.

African American families--Fiction.

African American families.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 295 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Norwood, Mass. : Plimpton Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.

Notes:

First edition, first printing (trade issue; advance review copy). "Advance review copies, identical in every other respect to the first printing, have 'Complimentary Advance Copy [Borzoi hound]' printed on the front open endpaper recto."--Crane.

"Borzoi Books"--Dust jacket.

Binding: full grass-green cloth with pale blue paper label (54 x 87 mm.; title and author's name in black within orange decorative border) affixed to left board; Borzoi Books device stamped in blind on tail inner corner of right board; pale blue paper spine label (70 x 31 mm., with title and author's surname in black with orange ornaments); orange tops; fore- and tail edges untrimmed. Issued in dust jacket. Cf. Crane.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Cited in:

Crane, J. Willa Cather: a bibliography, A22.a.i (trade issue)

OCLC:

43522374