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Secret of the Andes / by Ann Nolan Clark ; with drawings by Jean Charlot.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 5691
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Ann Nolan, 1896-1995, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Incas--Juvenile fiction.
- Incas.
- Peru--Juvenile fiction.
- Peru.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Milano, Kathie (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 130 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Third printing.
- Manufacture:
- [Place of printing not identified] : Text printed in the United States of America by the Vail-Ballou Press, 1953.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking Press, 1952.
- Summary:
- An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.
- Notes:
- "Third printing July 1953"--Verso of title leaf.
- Color-illustrated endpapers.
- Newbery Medal, 1953.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century manuscript presentation inscription ("Kathie Milano - Presented by her father on Nov. 12, 1953 after his return from Washington, D.C.") in blue ink on half-title leaf.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 39705096
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