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The Allens : a tale of the Great Kanawha Valley / by Henry J. Thomas.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 4575
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Henry J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Hunters--Fiction.
- Hunters.
- Pioneers--Fiction.
- Pioneers.
- Women pioneers--Fiction.
- Women pioneers.
- Murder--Fiction.
- Murder.
- Kidnapping--Fiction.
- Kidnapping.
- Dogs--Fiction.
- Dogs.
- Kentucky--Fiction.
- Kentucky.
- Virginia--Fiction.
- Virginia.
- United States--History--1783-1865--Fiction.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Dime novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Forrester, John (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Risso, Eladio (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 119 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Beadle and Company, [between 1862 and 1866]
- Notes:
- Terminus post quem for publication from Johannsen (29 August 1862); terminus ante quem from autograph dated 1866 on p. [5] of text.
- Frontispiece (signed: Goater. N. Orr--Co.) included in pagination.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy bound with: Stephens, Ann S. Esther. London : Beadle and Company, [between 1862 and 1866] -- Denison, Mary A. Ruth Margerie. London ; New York : Beadle and Company, [between 1862 and 1866].
- Schimmel Collection copy has bookseller's ms. notes in pencil on front free endpaper; early ms. note ("Beadle's American L[ibrar]y. The Allens No. 22. Esther. No. 23 Ruth Margerie No. 24") in ink with numerals supplied in pencil on blank leaf following front free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has autograph ("John Forrester") on blank leaf following front free endpaper; dated 19th-century autograph ("Eladio Risso 9 April 1866") of Eladio Risso (b. ca. 1849) on p. [5].
- Schimmel Collection copy has laid in paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this volume; leaf from a catalog ("David J. Holmes, autographs"), containing entries for Ann S. Stephens.
- Cited in:
- Johannsen, A. House of Beadle and Adams and its dime and nickel novels, v. 1, p. 84, no. 43
- OCLC:
- 7289830
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