• Publication: The Devil and Daniel WebsterPublication Record # 705509
• Author: Stephen Vincent Benét
• Date: 1937-05-15
• Publisher: Countryman Press
• Price:
  $3.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 61
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Notes:

  1st ed. as a book
  • Limited edition of 700 copies, signed by the author and the illustrator
  • WorldCat (OCLC, below) also reports: -- undated, copyright 1937 -- pages 13-61, size 22 cm
  • Publication date and price from listing in "Books Published Today", NY Times 1937-05-15 p17
  • "Illustrated by Harold Denison and designed and printed by Vrest Orton at the new press he has founded in Vermont." --Edward Larocque Tinker, "New Editions, Fine & Otherwise", NY Times 1937-06-13 p93
  • Identification of this as the 1st ed. is based partly on May/June news of the new venture by publishers Countryman Press and Farrar & Rinehart. Some books will be published in trade editions under a joint imprint (the first, 1937-06-01). Countryman will continue its Limited Edition series, with trade hardcover eds. to follow from Farrar & Rinehart.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 4359737

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• The Devil and Daniel Webster • (1936) • short story by Stephen Vincent Benét