Old Chester tales / by Margaret Deland ; with illustrations by Howard Pyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deland, Margaret, 1857-1945, author.

Contributor:

Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911, illustrator.

Ball, Thomas Watson, 1863-1934, binding designer.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911.

Pyle, Howard.

Genre:

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vii, 359 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899.

Summary:

A collection of realistic stories set in a fictional town loosely based on the author's early memories of Manchester (now part of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, Pa.) where she grew up.

Contents:

The promises of Dorothea

Good for the soul

Miss Maria

The child's mother

Justice and the judge

Where the laborers are few

Sally

The unexpectedness of Mr. Horace Shields.

Local Notes:

Publisher's green cloth pictorial binding depicting view of a town thru trees printed in lighter green, brown, gray, yellow, and white. Unsigned design attributed to Thomas Watson Ball by Richard Minsky.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has "Withdrawn" stamp on front pastedown.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has bookseller's label on back pastedown: "Henry R. Johnson Bookseller & Stationer Springfield Mass".

Cited in:

Minsky, R. Book cover art of Thomas Watson Ball, page 43

Other Format:

Online version: Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1945. Old Chester tales.

OCLC:

271604