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The Tattooed Countess

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The Tattooed Countess (1924)
by Carl Van Vechten
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The Tattooed Countess

Carl Van Vechten: A Bibliography

Why and What (an advertising pamphlet, signed atlas; 1914)

Music After the Great War (1915)

Music and Bad Manners (1916) Out of print

Interpreters and Interpretations (1917) Out of print

The Merry-go-round (1918) [1] Out of print

In the Garret (1920)

Marguerite d'Alvarez: A Broadsheet (1920)

Interpreters (1920)

The Tiger in the House (1920)[1]

Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works (1922)[1]

The Blind Bow-boy (1923) [1]

Mr. Van Vechten has written prefaces for the following books:

Sophie, by Philip Moeller (1919)

A Letter Written in 1837 by Morgan Lewis Fitch (1919) Privately printed

Lords of the Housetops (1921)

Kittens, by Svend Fleuron (1922)

In a Winter City, by Ouida (The Modern Library: 1923)

My Musical Life, by N. A. Rimsky-Korsakoff (1923)

Prancing Nigger, by Ronald Firbank (1924)

The Lord of the Sea, by M. P. Shiel (1924)

The following books contain papers by Mr. Van Vechten:

The Borzoi: 1920

When Winter Comes to Main Street, by Grant Overton (1922)

Mr. Van Vechten is the composer of:

Five Old English Ditties (1904)

The Tattooed Countess

A romantic novel with a happy ending

Carl Van Vechten

New YorkAlfred · A · Knopf
MCMXXIV

Copyright, 1924, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. · Published, August, 1924 · Set up and electrotyped by the Vail-Baillou Press, Inc., Binghamton, N. Y. · Printed and bound by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass. · Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co. New York. ·
The first edition of The Tattooed Countess consists of seventy-six hundred and sixty copies as follows: ten [not for sale] on Borzoi all rag paper signed by the author and numbered A to J; one hundred and fifty copies on Borzoi all rag paper signed by the author and numbered 1 to 150; and seventy-five hundred copies on English Featherweight paper.First printing, July, 1924
Manufactured in the United States of America

"Nous travaillons à tout moment à donner sa forme à notre vie, mais en copiant malgré nous comme un dessin les traits de la personne que nous sommes et non de celle qu'il nous serait agréable d'être."

The Tattooed Countess


  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Published also in England

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1964, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 59 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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