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The devil's hand : a novel / by Edith Summers Kelley ; with an afterword by Matthew J. Bruccoli ; and a postscript by Patrick Kelley.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 6099
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelley, Edith Summers.
- Series:
- Lost American fiction (Carbondale, Ill.)
- Lost American fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- California--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- California.
- Imperial Valley (Calif. and Mexico)--Fiction.
- Imperial Valley (Calif. and Mexico).
- Women farmers--Fiction.
- Women farmers.
- Miniature books--Specimens.
- Miniature books.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [6], 301, [1] pages ; 88 mm
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale ; and Edwardsville : Southern Illinois University Press ; London ; and Amsterdam : Feffer & Simons, Inc., [1974]
- Summary:
- A realistic novel depicting the struggle for survival of two unmarried women--fragile and dreamy Rhoda Malone and her stalwart and forthright friend Kate Baxter--in California's Imperial Valley in the 1920s.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Gary Gore."--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0809306751
- 9780809306756
- OCLC:
- 182560410
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