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The tinderbox / Hans Christian Andersen ; adapted, illustrated, and designed by Barry Moser.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ8.M8464 Ti 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moser, Barry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales.
- Children's stories.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ; Toronto ; London : Little, Brown and Company, [©1990]
- Summary:
- A retelling of Andersen's classic tale of a brave soldier who finds love and fortune in a magic tinderbox, set in the post-Civil War South. A soldier's fortune is made after he steals a magical tinderbox from a witch: striking it brings three huge dogs to grant their master's wishes. In the edition retold by Moser, the story is set in the post-Civil War Tennessee mountains, and the witch has been replaced by a wily mountain man.
- Notes:
- "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.
- ISBN:
- 0316039381
- 9780316039383
- OCLC:
- 20992270
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