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Gusta : a story of the Virgin Islands / by Sally and Luman Kelsey.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 2699
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelsey, Sally.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--United States Virgin Islands--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- African American boys--Fiction.
- African American boys.
- United States Virgin Islands.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Kelsey, Sally (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Kelsey, Luman Pierre, 1906-1961 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 50 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Island Press, [1944]
- Notes:
- Written by Sally Kelsey at the age of ten, and illustrated by her father, Luman P. Kelsey, with forty-six charcoal drawings. Cf. dust jacket.
- "Of this book 300 copies were printed in special edition hand numbered, hand bound for lovers of fine books. The first 100 copies of them autographed the author and illustrator."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy is one of a limited edition of 300 copies, signed by the author and illustrator. Cf. colophon and t.p. verso.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- OCLC:
- 28947965
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