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A golden wedding, and other tales / by Ruth McEnery Stuart.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 4709
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stuart, Ruth McEnery, 1856-1917.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Louisiana--Fiction.
- Louisiana.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy 1 & 2)
- Stuart, Ruth McEnery, 1856-1917 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy 1)
- Wilmarth, John (former owner) (Schimmel Collection copy 2)
- Bonnett, Caroline E. (former owner) (Schimmel Collection copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 366 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1893.
- Contents:
- A golden wedding
- Lamentations of Jeremiah Johnson
- Uncle Mingo's "speculations"
- The Widder Johnsing
- Christmas gifts
- "Blink"
- Jessekiah Brown's courtship
- Crazy Abe
- Queen Anne
- Camelia Riccardo
- The woman's exchange of Simpkinsville
- "Oh, shoutin's mighty sweet"
- Lucindy.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copies 1 and 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy 1 signed by the author on title leaf.
- Schimmel Collection copy 1 has [6] p. of publisher's advertisements at end of volume.
- Schimmel Collection copy 2 bound in full calf; flower stamped in gold at each corner of boards; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped red leather spine label ("A GOLDEN WEDDING"); gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; calf doublures and free endpapers; anniversary statement ("1845-1895 JOHN WILMARTH CAROLINE E. BONNETT OCTOBER 29TH") of John Wilmarth (1821-1898) and Caroline E. Wilmarth (née Bonnett; 1824-1905) stamped in gold on front pastedown; all edges gilt.
- Schimmel Collection copy 2: blank leaf following front free endpaper detached.
- Contains:
- Stuart, Ruth McEnery, 1856-1917. Golden wedding.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Stuart, Ruth McEnery, 1856-1917. Golden wedding.
- ISBN:
- 0512006970
- 9780512006974
- OCLC:
- 730190
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