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Around the world in eleven years / by Patience, Richard and John Abbe ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 8014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abbe, Patience, author.
- Abbe, Richard, author.
- Abbe, Johnny, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voyages and travels--Juvenile literature.
- Voyages and travels.
- Europe--Description and travel.
- Europe.
- Child authors.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Juvenile books.
- photographs.
- photobooks.
- Juvenile works
- Books.
- Photographs.
- Photobooks.
- Physical Description:
- xii pages, 2 leaves, 3-204 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1936
- Summary:
- Told through the eyes of children, this vol. chronicles 11 years of their lives as they travel from France to Austria (briefly), Russia, Germany & America with their parents. The time period is the 1920s-1930s.
- Contents:
- France, Austria and Germany
- Russia
- Hitler Germany
- England, and the Boat to America
- America
- These are the people we like
- These are the animals we like.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8014: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Housed in box with three other books by the same authors. One photograph of the Abbe children with caption on verso; one handwritten letter from Patience to Mr. Henry Rose; and clipping of Patience Abbe's obituary laid in. Ink inscription with author (Patience Abbe) autograph on front free endleaf recto: To my dear husband, Francis--in recognition of your boundless courage, honorable intentions and princely love. Thank you for sharing fourteen years of your life with me. Patience, Belvedere, California, February 3, 1969. With dust jacket. Cecil B. de Mille bookplate on box.
- Constituent Unit:
- Container of (manifestation): Abbe, Patience. Around the world in eleven years.
- Container of (manifestation): Abbe, Patience. Of all places!
- Container of (manifestation): Abbe, Patience. No place like home.
- OCLC:
- 366846
- Bound With:
- Schimmel 8014: In box with: Around the world in eleven years / by Patience, Richard and John Abbe (Eighth printing) -- Of all places! / by Patience, Richard and Johnny Abbe -- No place like home / by Patience, Richard and John Abbe.
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