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An edible alphabet / Bonnie Christensen.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection QK98.5.A1 C48 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christensen, Bonnie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plants, Edible--Juvenile literature.
- Plants, Edible.
- English language--Alphabet--Juvenile literature.
- English language.
- English language--Alphabet.
- Alphabet.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- Hong Kong : Printed by South China Printing Company (1988) Limited)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [©1994]
- Summary:
- Depicts edible plants from Apple to Zucchini by means of wood engravings. Includes descriptive index.
- Notes:
- "Design by Nancy R. Leo"--t.p. verso.
- "First Edition."
- "The words and the letters that appear in the art are set in Clarendon Lightface condensed, a wood type circa 1850 from the collection of the Ben Lane Printing Shop, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont. The woodblocks used for this book are one hundred and forty years old. Black ink was used for the woodblock images, and watercolors were then added."
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Tehon Collection copy: "1" printing.
- ISBN:
- 0803714041
- 9780803714045
- 0803714068
- 9780803714069
- OCLC:
- 28422700
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