City block / Waldo Frank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Waldo David, 1889-1967.

Contributor:

Hartman, C. Bertram, 1882-1960.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Frank, Waldo David, 1889-1967 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

320 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Darien, Conn. : Published by Waldo Frank, 1922.

Notes:

List of author's works on verso of half-title.

Title vignette.

"The Lettering and Seal are by C. Bertram Hartman."

"This edition is limited to 1250 copies: 1225 copies are numbered and are for sale to subscribers: 25 copies are lettered A to Y and are not for sale."--Page [5].

Because Frank and his publisher Horace Liveright feared prosecution from the New York Society of Vice, this book was published privately.--Cf. Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction.

Beige linen spine; brown paper boards

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 is no. 7. Copy 2 is no. 1032.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 inscribed "To Paul from his friend Waldo 1922." on front flyleaf.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has loose front and back boards.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "To Van Wyck from his friend Waldo. Darien, 1923".

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 37.

Other Format:

Online version: Frank, Waldo David, 1889-1967. City block.

OCLC:

702211