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Sapphira and the slave girl / by Willa Cather.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 835
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--United States--Fiction.
- Slavery.
- United States.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- African American families--Fiction.
- African American families.
- Husband and wife--Fiction.
- Husband and wife.
- Jealousy--Fiction.
- Jealousy.
- Virginia--Fiction.
- Virginia.
- Virginia--History--1775-1865--Fiction.
- History.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Linotype Caslon.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 295, [1] pages ; 20 cm
- Manufacture:
- New York : H. Wolff.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.
- Summary:
- Sapphira Colbert proceeds to persecute a once happy slave girl, Nancy, when Sapphira suspects her husband admires Nancy.
- Contents:
- Book I: Sapphira and her household
- Book II: Nancy and Till
- Book III: Old Jezebel
- Book IV: Sapphira's daughter
- Book V: Martin Colbert
- Book VI: Sampson speaks to the master
- Book VII: Nancy's flight
- Book VIII: The dark autumn
- Book IX: Nancy's return (Epilogue-twenty-five years later).
- Notes:
- "Book-of-the-Month Club selection"--Dust jacket.
- Book-of-the-Month Club copies lack edition statement on title page verso; colophon gives Plimpton Press (Norwood, Mass.) as compositor and H. Wolff (New York) as printer and binder. Dust jacket has Book-of-the-Month Club device on back cover in place of Borzoi device. Cf. Crane.
- Paper made by P. H. Glatfelter Co. Type is 11-point Linotype Caslon.--Colophon.
- Binding: full grass-green cloth with pale blue paper label (54 x 87 mm.; title and author's name in black within orange decorative border) affixed to left board; Borzoi Books device stamped in blind on tail inner corner of right board; pale blue paper spine label (70 x 31 mm., with title and author's surname in black with orange ornaments); orange tops; fore- and tail edges untrimmed. Issued in dust jacket. Cf. Crane.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained. Second dust jacket beneath the first.
- Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.
- Mathews Collection copy has Book-of-the-Month Club 4 page pamphlet laid in. Drawing of character Nancy, unsigned, on first leaf. No dust jacket.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean- François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has no dust jacket, but does have protective wrapper.
- Cited in:
- Crane, J. Willa Cather: a bibliography, A22.a.i
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