My mortal enemy / Willa Cather.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.

Contributor:

Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison), 1880-1956.

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

Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison), 1880-1956, illustrator.

Rare Books Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marriage--Fiction.

Marriage.

United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.

United States.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Authors' autographs.

Limitation statements.

Penn Provenance:

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

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

J. W. Robinson Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.) (label) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

7 unnumbered pages, 8-132 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.

Notes:

First edition, first printing (limited). Cf. Crane.

"The first edition of My mortal enemy consists of two hundred and twenty copies, of which twenty are not for sale ... Each copy is signed by the author ..."--Colophon.

Publisher's device set in green geometric frame on title leaf.

"13 line illustrations in varying pastel colors by W.A. Dwiggins, placed at the head of each chapter at pp. 7, 17, 30, 44, 51, 65, 75, 89, 99, 107, 115, 123 and 129."--Crane.

Binding: one quarter cream buckram over decorative black and gold paper boards (a variant: black with silver-leaved gold roses); paper spine label with title, author's name and floriate green ornament; untrimmed edges. Issued in case. Cf. Crane.

Illus. by W. A. Dwiggins.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy is no. 56 of a limited ed. of 220 copies, signed by the author.

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has label ("From the Books of J.W. Robinson Co. Seventh & Grand Los Angeles") of department store J.W. Robinson's on back pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy has paper slip with bookseller's typescript description of this copy laid in.

Schimmel Collection copy without case; second copy of paper spine label affixed to front pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy: most leaves unopened at head edge.

Athenaeum copy: No. 141 of 220 copies, signed by the author.

Athenaeum copy: Sinkler bequest; in custom slipcase.

Cited in:

Crane, J. Willa Cather: a bibliography, A15.a.i

OCLC:

3387100