A narrow escape / [Elizabeth Stuart Phelps].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911.

Contributor:

A.L. Foster Company.

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Nebraska--Juvenile fiction.

Indians of North America.

Frontier and pioneer life--Nebraska--Juvenile fiction.

Frontier and pioneer life.

History.

Nebraska--History--Juvenile fiction.

Nebraska.

Genre:

Advertisements -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- 20th century.

Chromolithography.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1908 or 1909?]

Notes:

Caption title.

"A narrow escape" is a condensed version of "A narrow escape: a true story" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, first published in Wide awake 1 (October 1875), p. 187-191, and subsequently collected in A narrow escape and other stories (Boston: D. Lothrop, c1877). This copy was distributed with an advertisement for clothier A.L. Foster Co. (Hartford, Conn.). At least two other copies are recorded, one advertising Dow's Drug Store (Cincinnati, Ohio) and the other "Broadway's Big Berlin Store."

Text begins (p. [2]): Many years ago a family came out from England to live in a wild part of Nebraska.

Full-page advertisement for A.L. Foster Co., 45 Asylum St., Hartford, Conn., "'Phone 2053" on back wrapper (p. [12]). A.L. Foster Co. advertises with this telephone number in 1908 and 1909 in Geer's Hartford city directory; subsequently the number appears as "Charter 2053".

Illustrated with 5 full-page chromolithographic portraits and 6 woodcut illustrations.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copies 1 and 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.