The Hornes : an American family / Gail Lumet Buckley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937-2024

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horn family.

Horne, Lena--Family.

Horne, Lena.

African American entertainers.

African Americans.

Families.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Biography.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).

African Americans--New York (State)--Brooklyn (New York)--Biography.

African American entertainers--New York (State)--Brooklyn (New York)--Biography.

New York (N.Y.)--Biography.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

New York (State).

Women singers--United States--Biography.

Women singers.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 262 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Distribution:

New York : Distributed by Random House, Inc.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

Contents:

Part One

The Old Hornes. The Calhouns; The Horns; The Hornes; The Horne Brothers; Helena Horne; Lena

Part Two

The New Hornes. Lena and Lennie; Gail; Epilogue.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."

"This book was set in a digitized version of Fairfield, a type face designed by the distinguished American artist and engraver Rudolph Ruzicka (1883-1978)."--A Note on the Type.

"Designed by Cecily Dunham."

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0394513061 :

OCLC:

13125145