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Obscure destinies / Willa Cather.
Van Pelt Library PS3505.A87 O25 1932
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 814
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- Nebraska--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Nebraska.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 229 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Manufacture:
- Norwood, Mass. : Composed, printed and bound by the Plimpton Press.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1932.
- Contents:
- Neighbour Rosicky
- Old Mrs. Harris
- Two friends.
- Notes:
- First edition, first printing (trade issue). Cf. Crane.
- Binding: Full green cloth; pale blue printed paper label with title and author's name within bright orange decorative frame mounted on left board; pale blue printed paper spine label with title, author's surname, and bright orange ornaments; dull orange tops; fore- and tail edges roughly trimmed. Cf. Crane.
- Issued in dust jacket. Crane records two forms of the jacket with no priority: gray-pink paper printed in red and blue; bright yellow paper printed in red and green.
- "Borzoi Books"--Dust-jacket.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained (gray-pink paper printed in red and blue).
- Culture Class Collection copy has label of Medwick's Book Store, Chicago, Ill.
- Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century ms. inscription ("Read- Howell- Aug. 1932") in pencil on verso of back free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained (bright yellow paper printed in red and blue, pace Crane).
- Cited in:
- Crane, J. Willa Cather: a bibliography, A19.a.i
- OCLC:
- 11110557
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