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A farmer's alphabet / Mary Azarian.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio PE1155 .A92 1981 Adelman copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Azarian, Mary.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Alphabet--Juvenile literature.
- English language.
- English language--Alphabet--Juvenile fiction.
- Farm life--New England--Juvenile literature.
- Farm life.
- Farm life--New England--Juvenile fiction.
- Alphabet--Juvenile fiction.
- Alphabet.
- Alphabet--Juvenile literature.
- Farm life--New England--Pictorial works--Juvenile literature.
- Farm life--New England--Pictorial works--Juvenile fiction.
- Engraving.
- Prints.
- Farm life--New England--Pictorial works.
- English language--Alphabet.
- New England.
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Juvenile works.
- Pictorial works.
- Alphabet books -- 1981.
- Publishers' advertisements -- 1981.
- Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 1981.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adelman, Jean (donor) (Adelman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 61, [2] pages : color illustrations ; 33 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : David R. Godine, Publisher, [1981]. (Brattleboro, Vermont : Book Press)
- Summary:
- An alphabet book of woodcuts featuring activities and objects associated with New England farm life, from Apple, Barn, Cow through aX, Yawn, Zinnia.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Hal Morgan"--Title page verso.
- Includes an Artist's Note explaining the process of creating woodcuts.
- "'A Farmer's Alphabet' has been set in Cheltenham Old Style by Typographic House of Boston, Massachusetts."
- Local Notes:
- Adelman Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Jean Adelman.
- Adelman Collection copy is "Third printing, November 1981"
- ISBN:
- 087923394X
- 9780879233945
- 0879233974
- 9780879233976
- OCLC:
- 7642944
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