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Young inquirer / Althea Bass.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bass, Althea, 1892-1988, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's poetry, American--20th century.
- Children's poetry, American.
- Private presses--Iowa.
- Private presses.
- Iowa.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bulmer.
- Arak (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Bass, Althea, 1892-1988 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Roberts, David Linder, 1927-1994 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 72, [4] pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Muscatine : The Prairie Press, MCMXXXVII [1937]
- Contents:
- Why
- Challenge
- Speculative thought
- The future
- An ordered universe
- Cosmic philosophy
- Dilemma
- Ambition
- The mathematician
- The great dipper
- The young inquirer travels
- The way of a maid
- Rabbits
- Addressed to Mother Rabbit
- Goodbye
- Three-year-olds
- About broken bones
- The reformation
- About washing
- This modern age
- The choir boy's revolt
- The scarecrow
- When a god falls
- Beseeingyousoon
- The inner check
- A change of opinion
- Discoveries
- The lamb
- An ideal situation
- The unbeliever
- On learning to ride a bicycle
- The adventurous isle
- About Santa Claus
- Girls
- A visit to England
- What the poplar said
- Thoughts before a birthday
- Against heaven
- A thought
- As to scholarship
- An anticipation
- From a sick bed
- The good ship Irresolute
- Swimming
- Magic
- At the zoo
- Visiting
- A regret
- Danny
- Night sounds
- Strategy
- Quarrels
- The bird-dog
- Christmas
- Addressed to God.
- Notes:
- At head of title: Althea Bass.
- "This book has been designed, hand set and printed by Caroll D. Coleman at The Prairie Press. The typeface is Bulmer, first cut by William Martin for William Bulmer's Shakespeare Press, London, 1793. Two hundred and twenty five copies of this book have been printed on W & A Arak paper and the type distributed."--Colophon.
- Verses for children.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy signed by the author on half-title leaf.
- Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century manuscript inscription ("David Linder Roberts 1937"), referring to David Linder Roberts (1927-1994) on cover.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- OCLC:
- 1142874687
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