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Foretaste / Peggy Pond Church.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Church, Peggy Pond, 1903-1986, author.
Contributor:
Rydal Press, printer, binder.
Writers' Editions (Santa Fe, N.M.), publisher.
Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American poetry--20th century--Women authors.
American poetry.
American poetry--Women authors.
Women poets, American.
Genre:
Authors' autographs (Provenance)
Penn Provenance:
Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Lawson, Martha E. (autograph) (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Villagra Book Shop (Santa Fe, N.M.) (label) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Physical Description:
[8], 73, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Manufacture:
[Place of printing not identified] : The Rydal Press.
Place of Publication:
Santa Fe, N.M. : Writers' Editions, 1933.
Contents:
Foretaste
Sheep country
For an autumn moment
November
Open winter
Crystal
Alien
What will they remember?
Winter sketch
Drought
Peach trees
Old house
Burros
Rain
Admonition
Abiquiu
A miracle of santuario
Five years old
A dower for my daughter
If I had a young son
For a birthnight
To a very little boy
Not quite three
Song for hanging out clothes
Bondage
Escape
Do not feel sure
Changeling
Shadow-madness
To certain ones who do not understand
Bridal
Hitherto
Ceremonial
Evergreen
After looking into a genealogy
I have looked at the earth.
Notes:
"Published December, 1933"--Verso of title leaf.
"Two hundred fifty copies of Foretaste have been handset in Caslon Old Style printed and bound by the Rydal Press ... signed [by the author]"--Colophon.
Local Notes:
Schimmel Collection copy is number 192 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 250 copies signed by the author. See colophon.
Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century autograph ("Martha E. Lawson March. 1934.") of Martha E. Lawson on front free endpaper; illustrated bookplate of the same person on front pastedown.
Schimmel Collection copy has bookseller's label ("Villagra Book Shop SantaFe, N.M.") on verso of back free endpaper.
OCLC:
3579084

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