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The wings of courage / by George Sand ; retold by Barbara Wersba ; woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi.
LIBRA - Special PS3573.E69 W5 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wersba, Barbara, 1932-2018.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- France--Fiction.
- France.
- Birds--Fiction.
- Fear--Fiction.
- People with disabilities--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 70 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : George Braziller, [©1998]
- Summary:
- In coastal France, a lame eleven-year-old boy named Clopinet is sold into apprenticeship to a cruel tailor, escapes, and overcomes his fear of everything in life through his love of the birds around him.
- Notes:
- Based on Margaret Bloom's English translation of Les ailes de courage originally published in a collection titled: Tales of a grandmother.
- "First Edition."
- "Set in Monotype Bulmer type. Designed by Jerry Kelly."--Colophon.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0807614343
- 9780807614341
- OCLC:
- 38574508
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