The land of purple shadows / by Idah Meacham Strobridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strobridge, Idah Meacham, 1855-1932.

Contributor:

Dixon, Maynard, 1875-1946, illustrator.

Artemisia Press, publisher.

R.Y. McBride Press, printer.

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Cowboys--Fiction.

Cowboys.

Western stories.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century.

Penn Provenance:

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

Chambers, Fred M. (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy 1)

Strobridge, Idah Meacham, 1855-1932 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy 1 & 2)

Starr, Harvey E. (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[12], 133, [15] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : The Artemisia Bindery, 1909.

Contents:

In quiet cañons

Hawks

Subduing a little savage

The wonder of Siu Seen Fah

One day at Pacheco's

Under the campanerio

In the days of Hank Monk

Up-stream under a summer moon

Jack Bruin: the goatherd

The transformation of Camp McGary

Old campfire days.

Notes:

Partly reprinted from various periodicals.

"Of this autograph edition of The land of purple shadows, one thousand copies were made ..."--Preliminary p. [7].

"And here ends 'The land of purple shadows,' as written by Idah Meacham Strobridge, with illustrations made by Maynard Dixon, and printed on the R.Y. McBride Press, and published by the Artemisia Bindery, which is in Los Angeles, California; and completed on the first day of December, one thousand, nine hundred and nine."--Colophon.

Frontispiece and illustrations facing p. [52] and [102], signed Maynard Dixon.

Advertisements, illustrated with photographs, on p. [8]-[15] at end.

Local Notes:

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

Schimmel Collection copy 1 is no. 722 of a limited edition of 1000 copies, signed by the author. Cf. preliminary p. [7].

Schimmel Collection copy 1 has dated 20th-century ms. gift inscription ("Merry Christmas to Nate and Kate Fred M. Chambers. 1933") on second blank leaf following front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy 1: text decorations are hand-colored.

Schimmel Collection copy 1: "This volume was bound at the Artemisia Bindery in Los Angeles, California, on the Third day of August in the year MCMX and is numbered 1477 Signed by Idah M. Strobridge"--Leaf inserted after p. [7] at end. (The date and copy number are supplied in ms. along with the author's autograph.)

Schimmel Collection copy 1 bound in three-quarter gold-tooled black morocco over green cloth; 5 raised bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; title stamped in gold on spine; marbled endpapers; purple silk marker; untrimmed fore- and tail edges.

Schimmel Collection copy 2 is no. 334 of a limited edition of 1000 copies, signed by the author. Cf. preliminary p. [7].

Schimmel Collection copy 2 has autograph ("Harvey E. Starr, M.D. 3907 Olmsted Ave., Los Angeles") of Harvey E. (Harvey Everett) Starr (1900-1976) in blue ink on first blank leaf in volume.

Schimmel Collection copy 2 has publisher's advertisement laid in.

OCLC:

1938554