Bierce and the Poe hoax / by Carroll D. Hall ; with an introduction by Carey McWilliams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Carroll D. (Carroll Douglas), 1902- author.

McWilliams, Carey, 1905-1980, author of introduction.

Contributor:

Book Club of California, issuing body.

Windsor Press, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 46.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.

Poe, Edgar Allan.

Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?.

Bierce, Ambrose.

Scheffauer, Herman George, 1876-1927.

Scheffauer, Herman George.

Carrington, Carroll, 1872?-1901.

Carrington, Carroll.

Genre:

Biographies.

Private press books (Printing)

Arnold (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[2], vi, 24, [2] pages : portrait, facsimiles ; 27 cm

Other Title:

The sea of serenity.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1934.

Notes:

Title and caption title in red and black.

"250 copies printed at the Windsor press for the Book Club of California"--Colophon.

A hoax perpetrated by Bierce, Carroll Carrington and Herman Scherrauer, in printing Scheffauer's poem, "The sea of serenity", in the literary supplement of the San Francisco Examiner, March 12, 1899, as "an unpublished poem of Poe".

"The sea of serenity": pages 21-24.

Printed on unbleached Arnold paper.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 85.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is copy 39.

OCLC:

3879088