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Zomo the Rabbit : a trickster tale from West Africa / told and illustrated by Gerald McDermott.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ8.1.M159 Zo 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDermott, Gerald, author, illustrator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--Africa, West.
- Folklore.
- Tricksters.
- West Africa.
- Rabbits--Juvenile fiction.
- Rabbits.
- Rabbits--Folklore--Juvenile fiction.
- Rabbits--Folklore.
- Tricksters--Africa, West--Juvenile fiction.
- Folklore-Africa, West.
- Local Subjects:
- Folklore-Africa, West.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- Singapore : Printed and bound by Tien Wah Press.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego ; New York ; London : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, [©1992]
- Summary:
- Zomo the Rabbit, an African trickster, sets out to gain wisdom.
- Notes:
- "The paintings in this book were done in gouache on heavyweight hot-press watercolor paper."
- "Production supervision by Warren Wallerstein and David Hough"--t.p. verso.
- "Typography designed by Lydia D'moch"--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.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has "reinforced binding".
- ISBN:
- 0152999671 :
- 9780152999674
- OCLC:
- 23693546
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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