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America the beautiful / Wendell Minor ; poem by Katharine Lee Bates.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS1077.B4 A8 2003 Cook copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Juvenile poetry.
- United States.
- Children's poetry, American.
- Songs--United States.
- Genre:
- Lyric poetry.
- Juvenile works.
- Poetry.
- Juvenile literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Cook, Lucy (donor) (Cook Collection copy)
- Cook, Richard (donor) (Cook Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [48] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.
- Summary:
- An illustrated edition of the nineteenth-century poem, later set to music, celebrating the beauty of America.
- Notes:
- Book designed by Wendell Minor with Gunta Alexander. Text set in Centaur.
- The art was done in watercolor and gouache on Strathmore 500 Bristol.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Lucy and Richard Cook Children's Book Collection presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018.
- Kislak Cook Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0399238859 :
- 9780399238857
- OCLC:
- 51330585
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