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"Printed dedication on p.[ix]: "I dedicate this book / to the illustrious triad / George Meredith / Charles Algernon Swinburne / Thomas Hardy."--Table of Contents [p. xi]. -- Text [p.3-392]. -- Lining paper map of America."@en
"Autobiographical fiction affording numerous references to Grove's life as Felix Paul Greve (1879-1909), and the three years he spent in America before he came to Manitoba in December, 1912. -- On title page: 'America is a continent, not a country.' -- Preface ["Author's Note", p. vi] is dated Dec. 1926, Rapid City, and signed with the printed initials F.P.G. Grove claims that this book has been rewritten 8 times over the last 32 years, and excuses "anachronisms" as "an unavoidable consequence of such a method of composition." He thanks A.L.P. [Phelps] and W.K. [Kirkconnell] of Wesley College, Winnipeg, for their encouragement."@en
"A second printing called "First reprinting" was published in June,1928. It has the publisher's emblem, a Thunder Bird in a circle, as well as stylized foxes and eyes on orange and black lining paper, and states: "This is a Miller Book" and "Cover & Jacket by Alan B. Beddoe."--RBR copy is No. 451 of the 500 Carillon Book Club copies ordered from the first edition of October 1927 and mailed out in early 1928. It is bound in dark blue lackered linen, with an embossed cathedral on the cover. The lining paper is patterned with concentric circles within small squares which are aligned in vertical rows; the left side also shows a cathedral in the centre while the right side reads: "This book has been chosen as the first to be distributed to the Booklovers of the Carillon Book Club of Canada. This is copy No. 451, and is the property of ... [illegible, Armstrong, illegible].""@en
"Printed dedication on p.[ix]: "I dedicate this book / to the illustrious triad / George Meredith / Charles Algernon Swinburne / Thomas Hardy."--The Dedication to Meredith, Swinburne, and Thomas Hardy is significantly shorter than those appearing in the 1st ed. of October 1927, the "First" ed. handled for the Carillon Book Club in January 1928, and the 1st reprint of June 1928, all three by Graphic Publishers [H.C. Miller], Ottawa, which reads: "I reverently dedicate this book / to the memory of / George Meredith / and / Algernon Swinburne / and to one of that illustrious triad / who is still living, namely / Thomas Hardy / for / 'Canadian literature is a mere bud / on the tree of great Anglo-Saxon tradition'."--Note that both Meredith & Swinburne, whose works Greve had translated into German & whom he may have known personally, died in 1909, the year Greve chose to start a new life in America."@en
"Autobiographical fiction affording numerous glimpses into Grove's life as Felix Paul Greve (1879-1909), and the three poorly documented years he spent in America before coming to Manitoba in late 1912. -- The 1928 subtitle of the L. Carrier ed., "The Odyssey of an Immigrant," is omitted. -- The "Author's Note to the Fourth Edition" [p. vii] is roughly three times as long as the December 1926 note found in all previous editions by Graphic Publishers (1., Oct. 1927; 2., January 1928 Carillon Club ed., and 3., "1st reprinting" in June 1928), and also in the so-called "American ed." by Louis Carrier (Oct. 1928). -- In the original "Author's Note" Grove had claimed that this book had been rewritten 8 times over 32 years, and that "anachronisms", as "an unavoidable consequence of such a method of composition," had to be excused for this very reason. He had thanked A.L.P. [Phelps] and W.K. [Kirkconnell] of Wesley College, Winnipeg, for their encouragement."@en
"Autobiographical fiction affording numerous glimpses into Grove's life as Felix Paul Greve (1879-1909), and the three poorly documented years he spent in America before coming to Manitoba in late 1912. -- This is the only early ed. with the subtitle "The Odyssey of an Immigrant" which subtitle is later re-introduced in all of McClelland & Stewart's 'New Canadian Library' editions."@en
"The "Author's Note" starts out by affirming that ASA has been "written in 1893-1894" [which makes the likely time of composition 1913/14, Grove's first year in Canada]. Making an oblique reference to Goethe's famous autobiography, "Dichtung & Wahrheit", he goes on: "I have often been asked whether the story ... is fact or fiction." In a mss draft of this preface, this reference is explicit. He then asserts "that every event in the story was lived through."--Follow fairly convoluted arguments why "facts" need to become "art" in "imaginative literature." Then a footnote to "Hueffer, 'Joseph Conrad'," and how Conrad's oral accounts varied. Note that Ford Maddox Ford was a neighbour's of H.G. Wells in 1905/6 when Greve & Else visited Wells from Paris-Plage. -- Finally, he justifies using a "pseudonym for [his] hero" [Phil Branden] with these words: "Well, while a pseudonym ostensibly dissociates the author from his creation, it gives him at the same time an opportunity to be even more personal than ... it would be either safe or comfortable to be were he speaking in the first person, unmasked. / F.P.G. / Simcoe, Ontario, / February, 1939.""@en
"The Dedication to Meredith, Swinburne, and Thomas Hardy is significantly shorter than those appearing in the 1st ed. of October 1927, the "First" ed. handled for the Carillon Book Club in ca. February 1928, and the 1st reprint of June 1928, all three by Graphic Publishers [H.C. Miller], Ottawa, which read: "I reverently dedicate this book / to the memory of / George Meredith / and / Algernon Swinburne / and to one of that illustrious triad / who is still living, namely / Thomas Hardy / for / 'Canadian literature is a mere bud / on the tree of great Anglo-Saxon tradition'."--Bound in rich yellow, coated linen. The dust cover depicts, on a soft green background, a ship and globe trotter, with a distant silhouette of New York in a setting sun. Brief summary of the novel on front flap, 5 review excerpts on the back [twice, Saturday Review; J.F. White, Canadian Forum; Fred Jacob, The Mail & Empire; W.A. Deacon, Saturday Night]."@en
"This "4th ed." by Ryerson is clearly based on the very printing plates used for the Louis Carrier "American edition" of October 1928. The only difference is the information given on the preliminary pages, namely: the map lining paper appears also inside the front, not only inside the back cover; the list under "by the same author" opposite the tp has increased from 3 to 8 titles; the tp is in black ink only & omits the 1928 subtitle; the verso of the tp has updated copyright information, but omits the Meekison acknowledgement; & the "Author's Note" has been expanded from one paragraph to seven, filling a good page and-a-half. -- From the significantly shortened, printed dedication to Meredith, Swinburne & Hardy on p. [vii] onward to the last page, p. 392, the 1928 Carrier & 1939 Ryerson books are identical in every respect."@en
"First ed. published in October, 1927 by H.C. Miller/Graphic Publishers, Ottawa. Henry Miller wrote to Grove on Feb. 12, 1928 [Mss 2, Corresp.] that "Mr. Knight has ordered 500 copies of the Search" as "the first offering to the [Carillon Book] Club, while the second is Mackenzie King's The Message of the Carillon." The Club was founded "the day after Christmas [1927]," and "the selecting committee [was] composed of L.J. Burpee, E.W. Harrold of the Ottawa Citizen, Jimmy Pedley, and C.C. Knight." Miller reported that with the 500 copies sales numbered near 1,400 copies 3 months after publication, and that Grove's Lecture Tour would "drive the total sales to well over the 6000 mark before June [1928] ...""@en
"Verso of t.p., p. [vi]: "Copyright, Canada, 1927 by Frederick Philip Grove. / Copyright, 1928, by Louis Carrier & Co. / Copyright, Canada, 1939, by The Ryerson Press, Toronto."--Bound in fine-grained, leather-like brownish-red coated linen. On the cover, there is an essentially rounded monogram of Grove's initial's, the "C"-like letter "G", perhaps a reference to his wife Catherine, enclosing the "FP" and a twig with three leaves. -- This 1939 monogram is quite different from the angular, gothic one designed for FPG by A. Endell in ca. 1902 & used on the 1946 Macmillan book 'In Search of Myself' (ISM; see FPG website for both monograms)."@en
"Fly-leaf opposite plain inside cover is autographed by Grove & reads: "A. L. Gordon / Feb 15/29"--The title page information, in red & black ink, appears in a double frame with stylized flower-buds, and the publisher's emblem, which is an icon of a man's half profile with a winged helmet, certainly representing Mercury, the winged messenger of the Gods. This emblem also appears on the spine above the name "Carrier"]. -- Across title page: "By the same author: / Over Prairie Trails / The Turn of the Year / Settlers of the Marsh". -- Verso of t.p., p. [vi]: "Copyright, 1928, by Louis Carrier & Co. / Copyright, Canada, 1927, by Frederick Philip Grove / The jacket and end leaves designed by J.M. Meekison. / Printed in the United States of America at the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass."--The "Author's Note" [p. vii] is identical to the original first 1927 ed. by Graphic and the other two 1928 H. Miller/Graphic eds: it is dated "December, 1926", states "Rapid City, Man.", and signed with the plain intitials "F.P.G", a habit Grove already practiced as Greve. Grove claims here that this book has been rewritten 8 times over the last 32 years, becoming ever shorter, and that any "anachronisms" are "an unavoidable consequence of such a method of composition" to be excused for this reason. He thanks A.L.P. [Phelps] and W.K. [Kirkconnell] of Wesley College, Winnipeg, for their encouragement."@en
"P. [v]: "I reverently dedicate this book to the memory of George Meredith, and Algernon Swinburne, and to one of that illustrious triad who is still living, namely Thomas Hardy, for 'Canadian literature is a mere bud on the tree of great Anglo-Saxon tradition'."--Table of Contents, p. [vii]: Book One: The Descent. Book Two: The Relapse. Book Three: The Depths. Book Four: The Level. -- p. [viii]: "Copyright 1927 by Frederick Philip Grove." -- Each of the four "Books" is preceded by a separate, unnumbered title page and a quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson [p. ix], Thoreau [p.117 & 363], and Carlyle [p.255]. -- p. 450: "A note on the type in which this book is set ..." followed by "Set up and printed by Graphic Publishers, Limited, Ottawa, Canada; Binding by Hutchings & Patrick ... Paper by Howard Smith Paper Mills, Cornwall, Ont. ... Cover and jacket design by Alan A. Beddoe.""@en

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"A Search for America : the odyssey of an immigrant"
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"A search for America: the Odyssey of an immigrant"
"A search for America. Abridged with suggestions for study"@en
"A search for America : signed on title page"
"A search for America : abridged, with suggestions for study"@en
"A search for America ; the odyssey of an immigrant Frederick P. Grove ; Introduction by Stanley E. McMullin"@en
"A search for America; the odyssey of an immigrant"
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"A search for America : the odyssey of an immigrant"
"A search for America : the Odyssey of an immigrant"
"Search for America"@en
"A Search for America. Abridged ... by J.F. Swayze"@en
"A search for America : the odyssey of an inmigrant"
"A Search for America"
"A Search for America"@en
"A search for America the odyssey of an immigrant"@en

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