The lion's share / by Octave Thanet ; with illustrations by E.M. Ashe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thanet, Octave, 1850-1934.

Contributor:

Ashe, E. M., 1867-1941, illustrator.

Cleland, T. M. (Thomas Maitland), 1880-1964, binding designer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kidnapping--Fiction.

Kidnapping.

Revenge--Fiction.

Revenge.

San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.

San Francisco (Calif.).

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906--Fiction.

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906.

Genre:

Fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Slider, Josephine (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 376 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, publishers, [1907]

Notes:

"Copyright 1907 ... October"--T.p. verso.

Dark red vertical rib cloth; full panel of rampant lion in darker red and black outline, gilt lettering, all within darker red and black rule border; three rings above panel and three hearts below; signed "C", i.e. Thomas M. Cleland; motif repeated on spine in blind.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Josephine Slider, 1908.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed Merry Xmas from Mae.

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collecion copy: frontispiece plate and protective tissue detached and laid in.

Cited in:

Smith, G.D. Amer. fiction, 1901-1925, T-144

OCLC:

1812066