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The elves and the shoemaker / retold by Olive Jones ; illustrated by Francesca Crespi.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection Miniature PZ8.J54 El 1983
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Olive.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Miniature books--Specimens.
- Miniature books.
- Fairy tales.
- Folklore--Germany.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 10 cm
- Other Title:
- Little box of fairy tales.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial [Books for Young Readers], [©1983]
- Summary:
- A poor shoemaker becomes successful with the help of two elves who finish his shoes during the night.
- Notes:
- Based on Die Wichtelmänner.
- "First U.S.A. printing."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Issued in a case with 3 other books by the author: Beauty and the beast, Rumpelstiltskin, and Snow White and the seven dwarfs. Title on case: A little box of fairy tales.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy has case wanting.
- ISBN:
- 0803747659
- 9780803747654
- OCLC:
- 8930739
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