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No place like home / 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, John, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voyages and travels.
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
- Hitler, Adolf.
- Europe--Description and travel.
- Europe.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Travel writing.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages : frontispiece, plates ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Julian Messner, Inc., 1940
- Summary:
- Travels of the Abbe children, whose father is a photojournalist, to places including "Poland, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia, Berlin, Vienna, Florence, Rome, Nice, Paris, London," and others; includes the three authors' impressions of Nazi Germany, in the "era of dictators and undeclared wars"--dust jacket flap.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8014: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Cecil B. de Mille bookplate on front pastedown. Ink inscription with authors' autographs on front free endleaf recto: To Cecil DeMille, Yours respectfully, Richard Abbe ; Johnny Abbe ; Patience Abbe (autographs in different hands). 13x10cm slip typewritten with "From you [sic] little friends, the Abbe children" laid in. With dust jacket.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Abbe, Patience. No place like home.
- OCLC:
- 1006633
- Bound With:
- Schimmel 8014 in box with: Around the world in eleven years / by Patience, Richard and John Abbe.
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