The cave / by Elizabeth Coatsworth ; illustrated by Allan Houser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coatsworth, Elizabeth, 1893-1986, author.

Contributor:

Houser, Allan, 1914-1994, illustrator.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sheep--Juvenile fiction.

Sheep.

Navajo boys--Juvenile fiction.

Navajo boys.

Basque Americans--Juvenile fiction.

Basque Americans.

Shepherds--Southwest, New--Juvenile fiction.

Shepherds.

New Southwest.

Genre:

Pastoral fiction.

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Coatsworth, Elizabeth, 1893-1986 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Woodfield, Henry John Birks, 1893-1983 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

63, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Manufacture:

[Place of printing not identified] : Lithographed in U.S.A. by Murray Printing Co.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Viking Press, 1958.

Summary:

A young Navajo boy helps a Basque sheepherder take the ranch's sheep to summer pasture, and is able to save the sheep when a sudden storm appears.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy inscribed by the author ("with cordial greetings to Mr. Woodfield from Elizabeth Coatsworth January 1930") to Henry John Birks Woodfield (1893-1983) in January 1930 on front free endpaper; manuscript note ("(Woodfield & Stanley)") on front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

469982