| Author: Grove, Frederick Philip, 1879-1948.
Title: A
search for America : "America is a continent, not a
country" / by Frederick Philip Grove. --
Edition: "First Reprinting, June 1928." --
Published: Ottawa : The Graphic Publishers Limited, 1928b, c1927.
Description: [ix], 448 p. ; 21.5 cm.
Contents: Table of Contents, p. [vii]: Book One: The Descent [7 chapters]. Book
Two: The Relapse [7 chapters]. Book Three: The Depths [7 chapters]. Book Four:
The Level [5 chapters]. -- Each Book is introduced with a motto: on p. [xi],
a quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson; on pp. [255] & [363], Henry David
Thoreau; and on p. [117], Thomas Carlyle.
Annotation: Verso of t.p. (=p.iv): "First Edition, October, 1927 / First Reprinting,
June, 1928."
Author's note on p.vi (signed "Rapid City, Man. December, 1926,
F.P.G.") states that this book was rewritten eight times over 32 years, and that "anachronisms
... are an unavoidable consequence;" the author was encouraged to publish this
book by "A.L.P.
[=Phelps] and W.K. [=Kirkconnell], both of Wesley College, Winnipeg."
Printed dedication: "I reverently dedicate this book to the memory of George
Meredith and Algernon Swinburne and to one of that of that illustrious triad
who is still living, namely Thomas Hardy, for: Canadian literature is a mere
bud on the tree of the great Anglo-Saxon tradition."
Autobiographical fiction, affording many glimpses of Grove's life as Felix Paul
Greve in Germany, 1879-1909, and of the poorly documented three years he spent
in the United States before coming to Manitoba in late, 1912.
This is a second printing, called "First reprinting". It was published in June,
1928.
The cardboard covers are a dark RED rather than what Grove called "burnt YELLOW"
used in the first ed.
The
preliminaries, the stylized waves & two sails in the Running Title,
and the text are identical in each and every respect to the First Graphic Edition
of October 1927. The only difference is the information on the verso of the title
page which is left blank in the 1st edition. In the end, a detailed note on type
face and paper, and two pages of Graphic advertisement are lacking.
The June 1928 edition also has the publisher's emblem, a Thunder Bird in a circle,
as well as stylized foxes and eyes on orange and black lining paper which differs
slightly from the 1st ed. by adding a dark square in the middle saying "This
is a Miller book." --
Printed from the original plates, this reprint ed. has a more generous margin,
resulting in a larger book [21.5 cm versus 19 cm].
Local Note: Copy 1 of this book in the Rare Book Room has an Ex Libris plate
stating: "From the library of the late Edward K. Brown, sometime Professor and
Chairman of the Department of English at the University of Manitoba."
Copy 2 of this book was donated to RBR in October by Mrs. Ainslie Peach (nee
Wiens), of Richmond, B.C. It is signed by the author diagonally across the title
page, and enscribed "To Grace from Aunt Catherine, Jan 9/49." At the top: "Grace
Wiens."
Subjects: Grove,
Frederick Philip, 1879-1948 Fiction.
Grove,
Frederick Philip, 1879-1948 Childhood and youth.
Grove,
Frederick Philip, 1879-1948 Search for America. 1928b[=June 1928].
Autobiographical
fiction.
Other Author(s): Beddoe,
Alan, 1893-1975. Graphic
Publishers (Canada)
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