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Waiting for May / Thyrza Davey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davey, Thyrza.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Old age--Juvenile fiction.
- Old age.
- Dogs--Juvenile fiction.
- Dogs.
- Australia--Juvenile fiction.
- Australia.
- Old age--Fiction.
- Dogs--Fiction.
- Australia--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 28 cm
- Edition:
- [First U.S. edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Toronto ; London : Doubleday, [1989]
- Summary:
- A social worker wants Old Alec, who lives with his dog on the coast of Queensland, to move to a pensioners' home; but to escape such a fate, the old man decides to sail his broken-down old boat up the Barrier Reef, until a fierce storm and the friendship of a young boy change his mind.
- Notes:
- First published in 1984 by Hodder and Stoughton (Australia) Pt. Limited.
- "First edition in the United States of America, 1989."
- "Jacket Typography by David Gatti."--Dust jacket.
- 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:
- 0385247982
- 9780385247986
- 0385247990
- 9780385247993
- OCLC:
- 18497622
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