Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, author.

Koopman, Harry Lyman, 1860-1937, author of introduction.

Contributor:

Harris, Walt, illustrator.

Berkeley Printers (Firm), active 1931, publisher, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New England--Social life and customs--Fiction.

New England.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

x, [2], 39, [3] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : The Berkeley Printers, 1931.

Notes:

Illustrated title page and lining-papers.

"The text of this edition is taken from the first printing of the story in the New England magazine for December, 1834. The illustrations are by Walt Harris ... Five hundred and forty copies have been printed, of which five hundred are for sale."--Colophon.

Introduction by Harry Lyman Koopman.

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 number 454. In slipcase.

OCLC:

2678838