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A touch of innocence / by Katherine Dunham.
LIBRA GV1785.D82 A3 1959
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunham, Katherine.
- Series:
- Harbrace paperbound library ; HPL 42.
- Harbrace paperbound library ; HPL 42
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dunham, Katherine.
- Dancers--United States--Biography.
- Dancers.
- African American dancers.
- United States.
- African American dancers--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 312 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1959.
- Contents:
- The Rabbit Hunt
- The Closed Room
- The Gray Sweater
- The Buggy Ride
- The Canal
- The Dust Wheel
- The Room and the Star
- The Piano Lessons
- The White Canvas Shoes
- The Cello Lessons
- The Creek
- The Quarry.
- Notes:
- "This book is not an autobiography. It is the story of a world that has vanished, as it was for one child who grew up in it - the Middle Wests through the boom years after the First World War, and in the early years of the Depression."--A Note to the Reader.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB Library of Joanna Banks".
- OCLC:
- 1049527672
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