In ole Virginia; or, Marse Chan and other stories / by Thomas Nelson Page.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Frevert, Harry L. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Haines, Netta N. (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Almy, Jane C. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 230 pages, 16 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm

Manufacture:

Astor Place, New York : Press of J. J. Little & Co.

Other Title:

Marse Chan

Place of Publication:

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887.

Contents:

Marse Chan.

"Unc' Edinburg's drowndin'" A plantation echo.

Meh Lady: a story of the war.

Ole 'stracted.

"No haid pawn."

Polly: a Christmas recollection.

Notes:

With half-title.

"Copyright, 1887, by Charles Scribner's Sons."

Issued in three printings.

"The dialect of the negroes of Eastern Virginia differs totally from that of the Southern negroes, and in some material points from that of those located farther west."--Note.

Publisher's advertisements: [12] p. at end.

Green cloth boards with a design in red and yellow of Virginia creeper on trellis on front cover.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is "First Printing" with publisher's advertisements beginning with Popular Books ... Old Creole Days and ending with A New Book ... The Merry Men to A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Harry L. Frevert 1/15/27.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "Netta R. Haines from Jane C. Almy? Aug 15th, 1887".

Cited in:

BAL, 15361

OCLC:

3190619