Benjamin Franklin / by Carl Van Doren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Franklin, Benjamin.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Sadow, Joseph (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2)

Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950 (autograph) (RBC copy, Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2, Culture Class Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xix pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 845 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits ; 24 cm

Manufacture:

[Camden, N. J. ?] : Printed in the U. S. A. by The Haddon Craftsmen.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Viking Press, MCMXXXVIII [1938]

Notes:

"First edition after publication of the Limited, signed edition in three volumes."

"Published in October 1938."

Includes "General Bibliography" (pages [785]-788) and index.

Pulitzer Prize, Biography 1939.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 inscribed to "My hardest critic Joe Sadow" by Carl Van Doren.

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Carl Van Doren.

OCLC:

9058896