A Sherlock Holmes birthday and other bookish stories conceived in the form of news / by Charles Honce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Honce, Charles, 1895-1975.

Contributor:

Steele, Frederic Dorr, 1873-1944.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957 (donor) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Honce, Charles, 1895-1975 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

221 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : frontispiece ; 26 cm

Manufacture:

Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Printed by S. A. Jacobs, The Golden Eagle Press.

Other Title:

Sherlock Holmes Birthday

Place of Publication:

New York : Privately Printed, 1938.

Notes:

With half-title.

Title page printed in red and black.

"These articles represent an enthusiasm and some knowledge of bookish things, combined with a necessarily brief and probably too superficial research, and a bit of plain newspaper writing ..."--In Explanation.

"This first edition ... consisits of one even hundred copies numbered and signed by the author. "

The frontispiece is a caricature "Sherlock Holmes looks at his illustrator," by Frederic Dorr Steele.

Red cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt stained; fore edge untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 86 but not signed.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "To Burton Rasoce, You once wrote a piece for me on the state of letters in America. Here's a small return. Thanks also for 'Titans,' which was the first book on books that made me really anxious to read those old boys, and for 'The Joys of Reading' which should be in every readers' hands. (This book is purely private.) Charles Honce, Feb. 22, 1939".

OCLC:

25680880