The devil and Daniel Webster
By: by Stephen Vincent Benét ; illustrated by Harold Denison
Contributors: Denison, Harold, 1887-1940, illustrator; Countryman Press
Publisher: The Countryman Press
Published: 1937
Place of publication: Weston, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 61
Subjects: Fiction
Description: A story in which a New Hampshire farmer sells his soul to the Devil in return for 10 years of prosperity. When the Devil comes to collect, the farmer appeals to Daniel Webster to defend him before the Devil's jury of American villains.

Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.
Notes: At head of title: By Stephen Vincent Benét.

"Signed by the author and the illustrator and is limited to 700 copies."

Rare Book copy 1: No. 452.

Rare Book copy 2: Editorial copy

Gift; Ralph Thompson.