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The missionary sheriff : being incidents in the life of a plain man who tried to do his duty / by Octave Thanet ; illustrated by A.B. Frost and Clifford Carleton.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 1760
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thanet, Octave, 1850-1934.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- Sheriffs.
- Iowa.
- Sheriffs--Iowa--Fiction.
- Iowa--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Drake, Martha Hayt (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 248 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Bros., 1897.
- Contents:
- The Missionary sheriff
- The Cabinet organ
- His duty
- The Hypnotist
- The Next room
- The Defeat of Amos Wickliff.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy imperfect: plate before p. 126 wanting.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has autograph of Martha Hayt Drake (dated 28 June 1898) on front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1876-1900, 2046
- OCLC:
- 604541
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