Firecrackers ; a realistic novel / by Carl Van Vechten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Book Committee.

New York (N.Y.)--20th century--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Vechten, Carl Van, 1880-1964 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Cunningham, Scott (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 246 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Manufacture:

Norwood, Mass. : Printed and bound by The Plimpton Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1925.

Notes:

"Of the first edition ... two hundred five large paper copies have been printed as follows: ten on Borzoi rag paper signed by the author and numbered from A to J; one hundred ninety five copies on Borzoi rag paper signed by the author and numbered from 1-195."

Title printed in black with red decorations within decorated black border.

"The type in which this book has been set (on the Linotype ) is Caslon Old Face, a faithful and authentic reproduction from the original patterns of William Caslon I. ..."

"Set up and electrotyped by The Vail-Ballou Press, Inc., Binghamton, N. Y., Paper manufactured in Scotland and furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York."

Black cloth spine lettered in gilt with orange, pink, yellow and white patterned paper boards.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 7.

Culture Class Collection copy Inscribed, "For Scott Cunningham-- This intimate chronicle of contemporary behavior-- with affection. July 4 1925."

OCLC:

9958617