The precipice : a novel / by Elia W. Peattie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935, author.

Contributor:

Smith, Howard E., illustrator.

Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher.

Riverside Press, printer.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers and daughters--Fiction.

Fathers and daughters.

Feminism--United States--Fiction.

Feminism.

Man-woman relationships--United States--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Social settlements--United States--Fiction.

Social settlements.

Women--Suffrage--United States--Fiction.

Women.

Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.

Chicago (Ill.).

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Sanchez, Jane Calvin, 1929-2006 (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Sanchez, Manuel Patricio, 1928-1996 (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[6], 417, [5] pages, [1] leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 20 cm.

Manufacture:

Cambridge : The Riverside Press.

Place of Publication:

Boston ; and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914.

Notes:

"Published Feburary 1914"--Verso of title leaf.

Frontispiece by Howard E. Smith.

Publisher's advertisements on pages [4]-[5] at end.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has bookplate ("Ex Libris Jane and Pat Sanchez") of Jane Sanchez (née Calvin; 1929-2006) and Manuel Patricio Sanchez (1928-1996) on front pastedown; author's autograph ("Every book is a confession of faith. Elia W. Peattie") on front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket (damaged) retained.

OCLC:

3246674