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The saint and the circus / by Roberto Piumini ; pictures by Barry Root ; translated from the Italian by Olivia Holmes.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ7.P6894 Sai 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Piumini, Roberto.
- Standardized Title:
- Grazie di san Tonio. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Tightrope walking--Fiction.
- Tightrope walking.
- Circus--Fiction.
- Circus.
- Saints--Fiction.
- Saints.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Tambourine Books, [©1991]
- Language Note:
- Translation of: Le grazie di san Tonio.
- Summary:
- When Filofilo the circus acrobat loses his balance on the tightrope, an inept saint in Heaven comes to his aid in ways that are more harmful than helpful.
- Notes:
- "First edition."
- "Translation copyright 1991 by Olivia Holmes."
- 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:
- 0688103774
- 9780688103774
- 9780688103781
- 0688103782
- OCLC:
- 22809051
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