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The Nutcracker / adapted and illustrated by Warren Chappell.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PZ8.C3665 Nu 1958
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991.
- Series:
- Borzoi book
- A Borzoi Book
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Christmas stories.
- Fairy tales.
- Christmas--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Christmas stories.
- Adaptations.
- Cloth case bindings.
- Illustrated case bindings.
- Illustrated endpapers.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 36 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 20 x 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Published by Alfred A. Knopf, [©1958]
- Summary:
- The story of the gallant little Nutcracker, the Sugar Plum Fairy, and the ugly seven-headed Mouse King on Christmas Eve.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."
- "Based on the Alexandre Dumas père version of the story by E. T. A. Hoffmann with main themes from the music by Peter Ilyich Tschaikovsky."--Dust jacket.
- "Text set in Monotype Bembo ... Designed by Warren Chappell and Charles Farrell."--Cophon.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy 1: dust jacket retained.
- Tehon Collection copy 2: front pastedown damaged; back pastedown has tape in center.
- OCLC:
- 303232
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