The house with a clock in its walls / John Bellairs ; pictures by Edward Gorey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellairs, John.

Contributor:

Gorey, Edward, 1925-2000, illustrator.

Tehon, Atha.

Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Magicians--Juvenile fiction.

Magicians.

Magic--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 179 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The Dial Press, [©1973]

Summary:

A boy goes to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden in the walls which is ticking off the minutes until doomsday.

Notes:

"First Printing"

"The text of this book was set in Janson, a Linotype face based on the original design of Antonius Janson, a Dutch punchcutter and typefounder who worked in Frankfurt and Leipzig from 1651 to 1687."

"Typography by Atha Tehon"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Tehon Collection copy has note "Selected by The New York Times as one of the six Best Books of Spring 1973" on dust jacket front lapel.

Other Format:

Online version: Bellairs, John. House with a clock in its walls.

ISBN:

0803738218

9780803738218

0803738234

9780803738232

OCLC:

533513