The homestead on the hillside : and other tales / by Mary J. Holmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Mary Jane, 1825-1907.

Contributor:

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Series:

Cornell series

Language:

English

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements -- New York (State) -- 20th century.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

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

Stone, Carrie (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

368, 12 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : A.L. Burt Co., [between 1902 and 1907]

Contents:

The homestead on the hillside

Rice Corner

The Gilberts, or, Rice Corner number two

The Thanksgiving party and its consequences

The old red house among the mountains

Glen's Creek

The gable-roofed house at Snowdon.

Notes:

Publisher incorporated as A.L. Burt Company in 1902. Its Cornell series was issued with gilt tops 1898-1907. Cf. this publisher's entry at The Lucile project.

Series statement from spine.

Publisher's advertisements at end of vol.

Binding: publisher's full green cloth; boards ruled in blind; double gilt rule at head of spine, followed by title and author's surname between gilt rules; series statement between gilt rules at foot of spine; gilt tops.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has autograph ("Carrie Stone") in pencil on front free endpaper. Possibly to be identified with Carrie E. Stone (later Wright; 1891-1974) of Cicero, N.Y., the autograph of whose brother Floyd Edwin Stone (1889-1969) is possibly to be found in Schimmel Fiction 2278.

OCLC:

4245484