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Duffy and the devil : a Cornish tale / retold by Harve Zemach ; with pictures by Margot Zemach.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ8.1.Z38 Du3 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zemach, Harve.
- Series:
- Starburst Book.
- A Starburst Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--England--Cornwall (County).
- Folklore.
- England--Cornwall (County).
- Folklore--England.
- England.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1986]
- Summary:
- A Cornish version of Rumpelstiltskin. The spinning and knitting the devil agrees to do for her win Duffy the Squire's name and a carefree life until it comes time for her to guess the devil's name.
- Notes:
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "Starburst edition, 1986."
- Art techniques used: Humorous pen and ink drawings, lightly colored in watercolor.
- Tehon Collection copy has "A Caldecott Medal Book" on front cover.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- ISBN:
- 0374418977
- 9780374418977
- 9781435202368
- 1435202368
- 9780833507167
- 0833507168
- OCLC:
- 17009072
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