Zigzag tales from the East to the West
Title:
Zigzag tales from the East to the West
Author:
Wilson, Harry Leon, 1867-1939.
Personal Author:
Edition:
[First edition].
Publication Information:
New York : Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1894.
Physical Description:
14 unnumbered pages, 167 pages, 11 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
General Note:
At least 3 variants exist, no priority established. 1) Bound in original pictorial pale green cloth, green vine design on lining papers; p. [1]-[6] at front are blank; at end, p. [1] is blank, p. [2]-[8] contain advertisements, p. [9]-[11] are blank. 2) Binding as in variant 1; p. [1]-[2] (blank) used for pastedown, p. [3]-[4] contain advertisements, p. [5]-[6] blank; at end, p. [1] is blank, p. [2]-[9] contain advertisements, p. [10]-[11] (blank) used for pastedown. 3) Bound in original pictorial wrappers, with additional series statement, "Puck's Stories, No. 9" on front wrapper. 18 cm. Preliminary and final gatherings as in variant 2 except 1st and last blank leaves are not pastedowns.
Gift of Helen Lyman.
Language:
English
Contents:
Bromley vs. Gilner -- An overland journey -- How a good man went wrong -- Skinner's awakening -- Smith's biography -- The defection of Maria Hepworth -- An old clock -- The success of James Ferguson, M.D. -- A Pan-American romance -- A family affair -- A western man -- An amateur lover -- Father's Cortland's vacation.
Local Note:
Rare Book Room copy matches variant 2 above.
Format :
Book