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Boots & the glass mountain / retold by Claire Martin ; pictures by Gennady Spirin.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ8.M4447 Bo 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martin, Claire.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young men--Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
- Young men.
- Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
- Conduct of life.
- Trolls--Juvenile fiction.
- Trolls.
- Stallions--Juvenile fiction.
- Stallions.
- Princesses--Juvenile fiction.
- Princesses.
- Magic--Juvenile fiction.
- Magic.
- Bullying--Juvenile fiction.
- Bullying.
- Brothers--Juvenile fiction.
- Brothers.
- Courage--Juvenile fiction.
- Courage.
- Knights and knighthood--Juvenile fiction.
- Knights and knighthood.
- Farmers--Juvenile fiction.
- Farmers.
- Fairy tales.
- Fairy tales--Norway.
- Folklore.
- Young men--Conduct of life.
- Norway.
- Folklore--Juvenile literature.
- Norway--Juvenile fiction.
- Folklore--Norway.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Dust jackets (Binding) -- 1992.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Other Title:
- Boots and the glass mountain.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books, [©1992]
- Summary:
- Boots saves his father's fields from the ravages of the trolls' wild stallions, and with their help, he rides up the glass mountain and wins the princess's hand.
- Notes:
- "'Boots and the Glass Mountain' is based upon a Norwegian tale found in many story collections, including 'Popular Tales from the Norse' by Peter Christian Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe, published by David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1888."
- "Typography by Amelia Lau Carling"--t.p. verso.
- "First Edition."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- 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 [1] slip headed Dial Books for Young Readers inserted with publication information for this title (Publication date: June 1992) laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0803711107
- 9780803711105
- 0803711115
- 9780803711112
- OCLC:
- 23286281
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