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Marie Angel's Exotic Alphabet : a lift-the-flap alphabetic safari.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection QL49 .A57 1996 Adelman copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Angel, Marie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Exotic animals--Juvenile literature.
- Exotic animals.
- English language--Alphabet--Juvenile literature.
- English language.
- Toy and movable books--Specimens.
- Toy and movable books.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adelman, Jean (donor) (Adelman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 17 x 20 cm.
- Other Title:
- Exotic alphabet
- Place of Publication:
- [Dorking, Surrey] : Templar, [1996].
- Contents:
- An African coastal jungle
- An African jungle waterhole
- A South American jungle
- A Central American jungle
- An Australasian jungle
- An African grassland at jungle's edge
- An Asian jungle.
- Notes:
- "A Templar Book."
- "Designed by Philip Hargraves and Janie Louise Hunt."
- "The full-color artwork consists of various colored washes that were applied over pencil silhouettes and finished with a very fine brush to achieve texture and detail."
- "An Alphabetic Safari from Antelope to Zorilla. Untie the ribbon of this unusual book and discover a lift-the-flap book, a bestiary of exotic creatures from the jungles of the world, and a nine-foot long decorative frieze, all in one!"--Cover.
- Local Notes:
- Adelman Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Jean Adelman.
- ISBN:
- 1898784698
- OCLC:
- 1013852501
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