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The serpent in the wilderness / Edgar Lee Masters.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dreiser Library Folio PS3525.A83 S43 1933
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 (inscription) (Dreiser copy)
- Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 (autograph) (Dreiser copy)
- Physical Description:
- 91 pages ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : S. Dick, 1933.
- Contents:
- Beethoven's ninth symphony and the king cobra
- Ode on America
- The seven cities of America
- The serpent in the wilderness
- Prometheus
- Song for the dead gods.
- Notes:
- "This edition ... consists of 400 numbered copies, of which 365 are for sale, numbers 1 to 84 inclusive, containing holograph manuscript. The book was made under the supervision of Vrest Orton & Ray Nash, and printed at the Marchbanks press on papier de Rives in Baskerville type ... "
- "Published May 13, 1933."
- Local Notes:
- Dreiser copy is no. 198.
- Dreiser copy is inscribed to Theodore Dreiser by the author January 3, 1938.
- Dreiser copy is enclosed in a box.
- OCLC:
- 3368640
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