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Fifty-fifty, a garland for Edna : September 14, 1930.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 674
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garnett, Edna Foote, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Garnett, Edna Foote.
- Birthday books.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Herron, Gertrude (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Porter, Edna (autograph, Pittsburgh, March 5, 1931) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [72] pages : portrait ; 17 cm
- Other Title:
- 50-50, a garland for Edna
- Place of Publication:
- [Pittsburgh, Pa.] : [Laboratory Press, Carnegie Institute of Technology], [1930]
- Notes:
- Cover title: 50-50, a garland for Edna.
- In slipcase.
- Publication data from procolophon and colophon.
- " ... forty-nine complete copies, printed on a hand press ... are for distribution ... among the various coadjuvants whose names appear on another page."--Colophon.
- A collection of poems, toasts, good wishes collected for Edna Foote Garnett's fiftieth birthday. Compiled and largely written by her husband, Garnett Porter.
- 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 in slipcase. Has inscription: To Gertrude [Herron]. A flower in my garland. A bulb in my lamp. Edna Porter. Pittsburgh March 5, 1931.
- OCLC:
- 23814058
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