The almanac of American letters / Randy F. Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Randy F., 1948-

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism--Anecdotes.

American literature.

Authors, American--Biography--Anecdotes.

Authors, American.

Authors, American--Biography.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 325 pages, 13 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Los Altos, California : William Kaufmann, Inc., [1981]

Contents:

Facts and figures

Calendar of birth dates

Names

Collectors items

Bestsellers

Losers

Banned in Boston, and elsewhere

Quotations

Realities

Hoaxes, forgeries, frauds, thefts

Phenomena

Anecdotes

Chronology.

Notes:

"First Edition."

"Designed by Al Burkhardt."

"Composed in phototype Garamond and Garamond Old Style ... Printed by R.R. Donnelley and Sons, Chicago, Illinois, via offset lithography on sixty pound Warrens 1854 regular, in an edition of twenty-two thousand copies, of which seven thousand are clothbound."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-300) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1981".

Potok Collection copy has highlighted passage.

ISBN:

086576008X :

0865760187

OCLC:

7167910