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The magic garden / by Gene Stratton-Porter ; decorations by Lee Thayer.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 4678
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romance fiction, American.
- Children of divorced parents--Fiction.
- Children of divorced parents.
- 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)
- Winch and Marshall (San Jose, Calif.) (label) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 271 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Manufacture:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Country Life Press.
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927.
- Summary:
- A wealthy young girl spends her youth preparing for the return of a young man she has loved since childhood.
- Notes:
- Half title page, with list of books by Gene Stratton-Porter on verso.
- "Copyright, 1927, by Gene Stratton-Porter, Inc. Copyright, 1926, 1927, by The McCall Company. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States at The Country Life Press, Garden City, N. Y. First Edition."--Title page verso.
- Marginal illustrations, in green, on every page.
- Local Notes:
- Bound in light green cloth; cover has garden gate design in dark green, lettering and flowers in orange; dark green lettering and flower illustration on spine; endpapers have decorative green and white garden 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 bookseller's description on 3x5 card laid in.
- Jean M. Rogers Collection copy textblock is partially detached from spine.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has bookseller's label ("WINCH & MARSHALL STATIONERS BOOKS OFFICE SUPPLIES 80 SO. FIRST ST., SAN JOSE, CAL.") on back pastedown.
- Schimmel Collection copy has tear in fore-edge margin of p. 89-90.
- Cited in:
- Maclean, D.G. Gene Stratton-Porter: a book collector's guide ; 25(a)
- OCLC:
- 24870142
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