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Beauty and the beast / Nancy Willard ; wood engravings by Barry Moser.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ8.W655 Be 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Willard, Nancy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales.
- Folklore--Juvenile literature.
- Folklore.
- Folklore--France--Juvenile literature.
- Fairy tales--Adaptations.
- Folklore--France.
- France.
- Genre:
- Adaptations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 67 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Manufacture:
- Singapore : Printed and bound by Tien Wah Press.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego ; New York ; London : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, [1992]
- Summary:
- A retelling, set in the early 1900's in New York City, of the traditional tale in which a kind and beautiful young woman, through her great capacity to love, releases a handsome young man from the spell which has made him into an ugly beast.
- Notes:
- "The illustrations in this book are wood engravings, a relief printmaking technique. They were engraved in end-grain maple. The display type and text type were set in Trump Medieval ..."
- "Production supervision by Warren Wallerstein and Ginger Boyer. Art Direction by Michael Farmer."--Colophon.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0152060529 :
- OCLC:
- 24376238
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