Research Catalog

Title

Pactolus Prime / by Albion W. Tourgée.

Author

Tourgée, Albion W., 1838-1905

Publication

• New York : Cassell Publishing Company, 104 & 106 Fourth Avenue, [1890]
• ©1890.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dunham, Oscar M.
• Cassell Publishing Co., publisher.
• W.L. Mershon & Co., printer.

Description

[8], 359, [1] pages; 19 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Bookplates (Provenance)
• African Americans > Race identity > Fiction
• United States > Race relations > Fiction
• Race identity > Fiction
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Genre/Form

• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• With a half-title page, which has an advertisement on the verso listing other works by the author.
• "Copyright, 1890, by O.M. Dunham."--verso of title page.
• "Press of W.L. Mershon & Co., Rahway, N.J."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• Last page blank.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink, on a card pasted to front pastedown: "Mayville N.Y. January 9, 1886. Nations, like men, must pay the penalty of their misdeeds and smart for every act of national folly. Albion W. Tourgée." ; Inscribed: in ink on front pastedown "Not to be given out. Tourgée's [seu livre a?] A.A. Schomburg." With the bookplate: "From the Library of Arthur A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. An advent morn -- ch. 2. A crowded inn -- ch. 3. A professor of the black art -- ch. 4. Master and disciple -- ch. 5. What the herald-angels saw -- ch. 6. An assessment of damages -- ch. 7. Some expert testimony -- ch. 8. Counterclaim and set-off -- ch. 9. "If wishes were fishes." -- ch. 10. A basis of composition -- ch. 11. The feet of two administrations -- ch. 12. An unsatisfactory client -- ch. 13. A puzzled counsellor -- ch. 14. Professional courtesy -- ch. 15. Baffled enterprise -- ch. 16. An intractable donee -- ch. 17. The boundary of right -- ch. 18. An unexpected call -- ch. 19. A promise fulfilled -- ch. 20. A fiat of science -- ch. 21. "And fate at length was kind" -- ch. 22. The return of process -- ch. 23. The advantage of being dead -- ch. 24. A true record -- ch. 25. "Blood will tell" -- ch. 26. The law of progress -- ch. 27. What it is to be a hero -- ch. 28. Penalties.

Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-T (Tourgee, A. Pactolus Prime)

LCCN

08029842

OCLC

3677067

Author

Tourgée, Albion W., 1838-1905, author.

Title

Pactolus Prime / by Albion W. Tourgée.

Publisher

New York : Cassell Publishing Company, 104 & 106 Fourth Avenue, [1890]

Copyright Date

©1890.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-T (Tourgee, A. Pactolus Prime) (accession no. B882452) inscribed: in ink, on a card pasted to front pastedown: "Mayville N.Y. January 9, 1886. Nations, like men, must pay the penalty of their misdeeds and smart for every act of national folly. Albion W. Tourgée." ; Inscribed: in ink on front pastedown "Not to be given out. Tourgée's [seu livre a?] A.A. Schomburg." With the bookplate: "From the Library of Arthur A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Local Note

Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-1192, or the electronic resource.

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Added Author

Dunham, Oscar M., copyright holder.

Cassell Publishing Co., publisher.

W.L. Mershon & Co., printer.

Tourgée, Albion W., 1838-1905, inscriber.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-T (Tourgee, A. Pactolus Prime)

NBO (Tourgée, A. W. Pactolus Prime)