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Duey's tale / Pearl Bailey.

LIBRA - Rare PZ7.B1528 Du 1975 Banks copy
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bailey, Pearl.
Contributor:
Skolnick, Arnold, photographer, designer.
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Seeds--Juvenile fiction.
Seeds.
Trees--Juvenile fiction.
Trees.
Seeds--Fiction.
Trees--Fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Penn Provenance:
Bailey, Pearl (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Bailey, Pearl (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
4 unnumbered pages, 59 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
Summary:
A maple seedling becomes separated from his mother tree, makes friends with a bottle and a log, and searches for his own place in life.
Notes:
"Photographs by Arnold Skolnick and Gary Azon. Designed by Arnold Skolnick."
Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Author, Winner, 1976
Local Notes:
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by the author.
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
Banks Collection copy inscribed "Pre-Release Copy. To darling Liz. I love you. Duey does too. Love your sister Pearl. Les would have loved Duey and vis versa (smiley face)".
ISBN:
0151265763 :
9780151265763
OCLC:
1057005

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