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For the pleasure of his company : an affair of the misty city, thrice told
- Title
- For the pleasure of his company : an affair of the misty city, thrice told / by Charles Warren Stoddard ; designs by Marshall Douglass.
- Author
- Stoddard, Charles Warren, 1843-1909.
- Publication
- San Francisco : A.M. Robertson, 1903.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll Stoddard F67 1903 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
Details
- Description
- 257 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- The story of Paul Clitheroe, whose youth is spent in San Francisco earning a meager living as a writer and actor, and who voyages to the South Sea Islands where he finds happiness in the arms of three young native islanders.
- Subjects
- Note
- Added t.p., illustrated.
- The first gay novel to be set in San Francisco.
- First edition of the author's only novel, described by Robert Gale in his monograph on Stoddard as "one of the strangest novels ever written."
- Stoddard, a poet, journalist, and travel writer, alluded elliptically to his homosexuality in his memoir South-Sea Idyls.
- Stoddard originally planned to call the novel So Pleased to Have Met You. His friend Rudyard Kipling suggested the book's eventual title.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Binding (note)
- Publisher's binding of green cloth illustrated with panel depicting in black lines a large spired edifice on a wooded hillside, beneath full moon, with title and author's name white-stamped on front cover, title and publisher's name white-stamped on spine, and towered and turreted structure depicted in black on spine.
- Call Number
- Berg Coll Stoddard F67 1903
- LCCN
- 03013058
- OCLC
- 1344811
- Author
- Stoddard, Charles Warren, 1843-1909.
- Title
- For the pleasure of his company : an affair of the misty city, thrice told / by Charles Warren Stoddard ; designs by Marshall Douglass.
- Imprint
- San Francisco : A.M. Robertson, 1903.
- Access
- Restricted access; request permission from holding division.
- Binding
- Publisher's binding of green cloth illustrated with panel depicting in black lines a large spired edifice on a wooded hillside, beneath full moon, with title and author's name white-stamped on front cover, title and publisher's name white-stamped on spine, and towered and turreted structure depicted in black on spine.
- Local Note
- Berg Collection copy with bottom and leading edges of text block uncut.
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- Other Form:
- Online version: Stoddard, Charles Warren, 1843-1909. For the pleasure of his company. San Francisco, A.M. Robertson, 1903 (OCoLC)551557961
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll Stoddard F67 1903