The keeper of the bees / by Gene Stratton-Porter ; decorations by Lee Thayer ; illustrations by Gordon Grant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924.

Contributor:

Thayer, Lee, 1874-1973.

Grant, Gordon, 1875-1962, illustrator.

Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher.

Country Life Press, printer.

Jean M. Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beekeepers--Fiction.

Beekeepers.

Indiana--Fiction.

Indiana.

Bee culture--Fiction.

Bee culture.

Genre:

Fiction.

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- United States.

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- United States.

Penn Provenance:

Rogers, H. Carton, III (donor) (Rogers Collection copy)

Rogers, Jean M. (former owner) (Rogers Collection copy)

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

Ellis, Laura A. (former owner) (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy 1)

Physical Description:

14 unnumbered pages, 515 pages, 1 unnumbered page (last page blank), 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Manufacture:

Garden City, N.Y. : Country Life Press.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925.

Summary:

Veteran escapes from hospital to avoid being sent to tubercular isolation camp, and finds health in aiding a beekeeper.

Notes:

"Copyright, 1925, by Gene Stratton-Porter, Inc. All rights reserved ; Copyright, 1925, by The McCall Company ; Printed in the United States at The Country Life Press, Garden City, N. Y. First Edition."--Title page verso.

Color frontispiece and color plates facing pages 284, 412 and 492. Decorations on preliminary pages.

First half title page, with list of books by Gene Stratton-Porter on verso.

Local Notes:

Bound in lighter blue cloth with darker blue lettering on cover and spine; illustration of flowers and bees on cover and spine; endpapers have decorative blue and white farm scene.

Jean M. Rogers Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by H. Carton Rogers, III, in honor of Jean M. Rogers.

Jean M. Rogers Collection copy has ownership inscription "Jean Rogers" on front flyleaf.

Jean M. Rogers Collection copy has bookseller's description on 3x5 card laid in.

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

Schimmel Collection copy 1 has dated 20th-century ms. ownership inscription ("Laura A Ellis Book 606 State Street Springfield Mass. Dec 25 1925") of Laura Ann Ellis (née Shaw; 1862 or 1863-1957) on front free endpaper.

Cited in:

Maclean, D. G. Gene Stratton-Porter: a book collector's guide, 23(a)

Other Format:

Online version: Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924. Keeper of the bees.

OCLC:

1259537