The Devil and Daniel Webster
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Overview:
- Title: The Devil and Daniel Webster
- Author: Stephen Vincent Benét
- Year: 1937
- Publisher: Countryman Press
- Price: $3.50
- Pages: 61
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Chapter Book
- Title Reference: The Devil and Daniel Webster
- 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 {{publisher|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.