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The painted pig : a Mexican picture book / text by Elizabeth Morrow ; pictures by René d'Harnoncourt.
LIBRA PZ7.M8455 Pa
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morrow, Elizabeth, 1873-1955.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Picture Books for Children.
- Mexico--Fiction.
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-1975 (bookplate) (donor) (inscription)
- D'Harnoncourt, Rene, 1901-1968 (autograph, Nov. 10, 1930)
- Physical Description:
- 3 unnumbered pages, 3-32 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : color frontispiece, illustrations (part colored) ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : A.A. Knopf, 1930.
- Summary:
- When the toymaker forgets to make him a piggy bank, a young Mexican boy finds some clay and tries to make one of his own. Includes historical notes on Mexican folk art and the author's experiences in Mexico as the wife of the United States ambassador in the 1920s.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Rare copy has inscription from artist to Zigrosser.
- OCLC:
- 4079989
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