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The little jewel box / by Marianna Mayer ; pictures by Margot Tomes.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ8.M4514 Li 1986 copy 3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mayer, Marianna
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (inscription copy 3) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tomes, Margot (autograph) (Tehon Collection copy 3)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- Hong Kong : Printed by South China Printing Co.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [©1986]
- Summary:
- Cursed with bad luck, a courageous young girl sets out in search of adventure, her only protection a little jewel box that she is to open only when in danger of death.
- Notes:
- "Design by Atha Tehon"--t.p. verso.
- "First Edition."
- "The full-color artwork was prepared in gouache. It was then camera-separated and reproduced in red, blue, yellow, and black halftones."
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copies 1-3 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copies 1-3: dust jacket retained.
- Tehon Collection copies 1-3 are "First Edition, First Printing".
- Tehon Collection copy 3 inscribed to Atha Tehon by Margot Tomes.
- ISBN:
- 0803701489
- 9780803701489
- 0803701497
- 9780803701496
- OCLC:
- 12343718
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