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The potato child & others / by Mrs. Charles J. Woodbury ; frontispiece after a bas-relief by Elizabeth Ferrea.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Paul Elder 52
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woodbury, Lucia Prudence Hall, "Mrs. C. J. Woodbury, ", 1848, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christmas stories, American--20th century.
- Christmas stories, American.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Pratt, Edward W. (autograph) (bookplate) (stamp) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [4], 27, [1] pages : frontispiece (black-&-white) ; 20 cm
- Manufacture:
- San Francisco : Tomoye Press
- Other Title:
- Potato child and others
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, California : Paul Elder and Company, [1910]
- Contents:
- The potato child.
- A story that never ends.
- A Nazareth Christmas.
- Notes:
- Title vignette.
- "Done into a book ... at ... Tomoye Press, under the direction of John Henry Nash ..."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has handwritten note from Edward W. Pratt taped in: "This book is very valuable to me as have no duplicates".There is also a typewritten note (pasted in) stating that his aunt wrote & sold these stories in order to fund a free kindergarten she ran.
- OCLC:
- 6002310
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