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House of flowers, House of stars / by Beni Montresor.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ7.M769 Ho
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montresor, Beni.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dwellings--Fiction.
- Dwellings.
- Fantasy.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Cloth case bindings.
- Illustrated case bindings.
- Book jackets.
- Lithographs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Manufacture:
- New York : Bound by H. Wolff.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : [Distributed by Random House, Inc.], [1962]
- Summary:
- Describes many different houses, real and fanciful, including the house where naughty children live, a house belonging to wealthy birds, and the house of a pompous mouse.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."
- Author's first written children's book.
- "Text set in Caslon Old Style No. 337 ... Typography by Beni Montresor."--Colophon.
- 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.
- Tehon Collection copy has part of stamp (red H stamped) in a circle on back free endpaper.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Montresor, Beni. House of flowers, house of stars.
- OCLC:
- 471791
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