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O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD: Prize Stories of 1919,
Chosen by the Society of Arts and Sciences

Hall Code
Description
Cabell Contribution(s)
B2
First Edition
Porcelain Cups

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: [all enclosed in a red rule enclosed in a double black rule] [in italic] O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD | [in red] PRIZE STORIES | 1919 | CHOSEN BY THE SOCIETY OF | ARTS AND SCIENCES | [device in red] | WITH AN INTRODUCTION | BY | BLANCHE COLTON WILLIAMS | GARDEN CITY NEW YORK | DOUBLE, PAGE & COMPANY | 1920 (see image above).

Title page verso: COPYRIGHT 1920 BY | DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION | INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN | Copyright, 1918, by Harper & Brothers. | Copyright 1919, by The Cowell Publishing Company, | Street & Smith Corporation, The Atlantic Monthly Company, | The Curtis Publishing Company, New Fiction Publishing | Company, The Ridgway Company, The Ainslee Magazine | Company International Magazine Company, The Pictorial Re- | view Comapny, The Century Company. (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company; 1920

Collation:

Octavo [19.4 cm. (7 5/8-in.) x 13.4 cm. (5ΒΌ-in.)], xviii + 300 + 2 blank leaves, (i) half-title (verso blank); (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; p. v. contents (verso blank); vii-xvii Introduction (verso blank); (1) fly-title (verso blank); 3-298 text; (299) colophon; 2 blank leaves.

Binding:

Blacked ribbed cloth; printing in orange on spine and front cover; all edges trimmed. Spine: [in italic] O. Henry | Memorial | Award | PRIZE | STORIES | SOCIETY | OF ARTS | AND | SCIENCES | DOUBLEDAY | PAGE & CO. Front cover: [in italic] O. Henry Memorial Award | PRIZE STORIES | 1919 | CHOSEN BY THE | SOCIETY OF ARTS | AND SCIENCES (see image above).

Dust jacket:

Grey paper printed in black (see image above).

Spine:[in italic] O. Henry | Memorial | Award | PRIZE | STORIES | SOCIETY | OF ARTS | AND | SCIENCES | DOUBLEDAY | PAGE & CO.

Front panel: [in italic] O. Henry Memorial Award | PRIZE STORIES | 1919 | CHOSEN BY THE | SOCIETY OF ARTS | AND SCIENCES | [12-line blurb in two paragraphs]

Rear panel: [simulated signture] O Henry | IN LEATHER | [double rule] | [list of thirteen titles] | [in italic] Bound in red limp leather, stamped in gold

Front flap:Waifs and | Strays | [double rule] | [in italic] by O. Henry | [double rule] | [25-line blurb in three paragraphs]

Rear flap: O. HENRY | BIOGRAPHY | [in italic] By | C. ALPHONSO SMITH | [in italic] Of the Department of English, University of | Virginia, Author of of "What Can | Literature Do for Me?" | [double rule] | [221-line blurb in two paragraphs]