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The house of happiness / by Kate Langley Bosher.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1913 Bosher
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bosher, Kate Langley, 1865-1932.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1913.
- Signed bindings (Binding) -- 1913.
- Physical Description:
- 304 p., [1] leaf of plates : [1] col. ill. ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Brothers, 1913.
- Contents:
- Cricket
- Rivers colburn
- Dinner
- The system
- A night visit
- A fishing party
- A double plunge
- Letters
- A bit of news
- A walk and a talk
- Lumps and bumps
- Admission and advice
- Piping forest
- New quarters
- A twilight talk
- Supper-time
- Confessions
- Worries and worrying
- In the firelight
- The story of Diane
- The story continued
- The arrival
- The white rose
- Confession
- The visit home
- Back again
- Victory
- Conspirators
- The message
- The wedding gift.
- Notes:
- Frontispiece signed "Walter Biggs."
- "Published October, 1913"--T.p. verso.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in green cloth, stamped in cream, dark green and purple on front cover and gilt and darker purple (or dark blue?) on spine. Cover ill. signed "BS" for Bertha Stuart.
- Athenaeum copy: "Purple, white and dark green, flowered abstact entranceway on olive green cloth" -- Minsky.
- Athenaeum's copy stamped on t.p.: "Received Nov 11 1913 The Athenaeum."
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- Cited in:
- Minsky, Richard. American decorated publishers' bindings, 1872-1929 (electronic resource), v. 1, pg. 75
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