Mannerhouse, a play in a prologue and three acts / by Thomas Wolfe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Drama.

United States.

History.

Southern States--Drama.

Southern States.

Genre:

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Speiser, Maurice J. (Maurice Joseph), b. 1880 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Speiser, Mrs. (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 183 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : portrait, facsimile ; 23 cm

Edition:

[First edition, limited print.].

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1948.

Notes:

"Of the first edition of 'Mannerhouse' 500 numbered copies, with a portrait of Thomas Wolfe and a twelve page facsimile of a holograph letter by him, have been specially printed and bound."

Title page printed in black and light brown.

Contains 12 page facsmile of letter from Wolfe to Miss. Lewisohn followed by a 2 page transcription.

"First Edition K-X"

"The Letter which follows, reproduced in facsimile, is Thomas Wolfe's comment on his play, 'Mannerhouse,' addressed to Miss. Lewisohn of the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. Both letter and play were probably written in 1926, or three years before the publication of 'Look Homeward Angel' ..."

"Set in Linotype Janson."

Black cloth binding with blue paper label ruled and lettered in black on spine. Blue gray dustjacket. Housed in slipcase of black coated paper-covered boards with light grayish blue paper pasted over covering all but top and bottom. Front printed in black within an ornamental border.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 231.

Culture Class Collection copy has top of slipcase disbound.

OCLC:

1081983