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Mocha the Djuka / Frances Fullerton Neilson ; illustrated by Avery Johnson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7337
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neilson, Frances Fullerton, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ndjuka children--Juvenile fiction.
- Ndjuka children.
- Suriname--Juvenile fiction.
- Suriname.
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Juvenile works
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 142, [2] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., [1943]
- Summary:
- A native boy of Dutch Guiana befriends the young son of a white researcher in his village, and learns to deal with friendship as never before when the time for deparure arrives.
- Notes:
- Illustrated endpapers.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has manuscript gift inscription ("To Ruth & Dick - Good times - Good Drinks - But what counts - Good friends - Babbie") in blue ink on page opposite title page.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 3867686
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