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The handmade alphabet / Laura Rankin.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection HV2480 .R36 1991 copy 2
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection HV2480 .R36 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rankin, Laura.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moncure, Jane Belk. Alphabet books.
- Moncure, Jane Belk.
- Alphabet books (Moncure, Jane Belk).
- Deaf people--Means of communication.
- Finger spelling--United States--Juvenile literature.
- Finger spelling.
- Deaf people--Means of communication--Juvenile literature.
- Deaf people.
- Sign language.
- Alphabet.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2)
- 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, [©1991]
- Summary:
- Presents the handshape for each letter of the American manual alphabet accompanied by an object whose name begins with that letter.
- Notes:
- "Design by Nancy R. Leo"--t.p. verso.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "The art for each picture consists of colored pencil on charcoal paper, which is scanner-separated and reproduced in full color."
- Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Honor, 1992.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2: dust jacket retained.
- Tehon Collection copy 1 is "First Edition".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Rankin, Laura. Handmade alphabet.
- ISBN:
- 0803709749
- 9780803709744
- 0803709757
- 9780803709751
- OCLC:
- 22811166
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