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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.
Contributor:
Nash, John Henry, 1871-1947, printer.
Paul Elder and Company, publisher.
Tomoyé Press, printer.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
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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