The Upas Tree: A Christmas Story for All the Year / Florence L. Barclay

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

The Upas Tree: A Christmas Story for All the Year / Florence L. Barclay

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.330

Description

287 pages, plus 4 pages of advertising to the rear. Tissue guarded color frontis, color illustrations.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Christmas stories, 1910s

Dimensions

Height

7-1/2 in

Book Details

Author

Florence L. Barclay

Edition

First

Publisher

G.P. Putnam's Sons

Place Published

City

New York, London

State/Province

New York

Country

United States, England

Continent

North America

Date Published

1912

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- 20th Century Blind Stamping

Binding Notes

Bound in bright purple cloth with a blind stamped art nouveau cover surrounding a central oval containing the title and author in gilt. Blind stamping and gilt motif repeated on the spine. Spine color and gilt are bright with no sun fading common to this title.

Notes

Flyleaf inscription: H. A. B. Palmer Christmas 1912.