The Blue sky booklets. Volume one : In the sack of the castle ; The end of Malcolm Brewster ; Changing skies ; In old Madras ; The storm ; My ships aground.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942, author, autographer.

McIlvaine, Mabel, author, autographer.

Fowler, Egbert Willard, -1901?, author, autographer.

Egbert, Marion Thornton, 1874- author, autographer.

Allen, Frank Waller, 1878-1937, author, autographer.

Contributor:

Blue Sky Press, printer.

H.W. Caslon & Co., type designer.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Blue Sky booklets ; no.1-6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century.

American literature.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Fowler, Egbert Willard, -1901? (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Egbert, Marion Thornton, 1874- (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Allen, Frank Waller, 1878-1937 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged): illustrations ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

[Chicago, Illinois] : [The Blue Sky Press], [1900]

Contents:

In the sack of the castle : a medieval fragment / Thomas Wood Stevens [March 1900]

The end of Malcolm Brewster gentleman : a colonial tale / by Michael Kinmarck [March 1900]

Changing skies : being verses / written by Mabel McIlvaine [April 1900]

In old Madras : a sketch / by Marion Thornton Egbert [June 1900]

The storm : a prairie song / by Egbert Willard Fowler [July 1900]

My ships aground / by Frank Waller Allen [August 1900].

Notes:

"Michael Kinmarck" is a pseudonym of Thomas Wood Stevens. See K. MacLeod, American little magazines of the fin de siècle (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018), page 111.

Contains numbers 1-6 of The Blue Sky booklets. Each number is signed by its author and printed in a limited edition: no. 1, 93 copies; no. 2, 97 copies; no. 3, 95 copies; no. 4, 145 numbered copies; no. 5, 123 numbered copies; no. 6, 125 numbered copies. See limitation statements.

All numbers without pagination.

Printer's device on title leaves of numbers 4-6.

Original paper wrappers of each number bound in.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy contains copy number 32 of a limited edition of 145 copies of number 4, copy number 72 of a limited edition of 123 copies of number 5, and copy number 44 of a limited edition of 125 copies of number 6 (the copy number in each case supplied in manuscript). See limitation statement of each number.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: edges untrimmed.

Cited in:

Ransom, W. Private presses and their books, page 219, numbers 3-6, 8-9

OCLC:

54662057