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Get-a-way and Háry János

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	3596.7185	Off-site

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Description

[64] p. : col. ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

A wooden soldier with one arm and a toy horse with three legs journey to a far off land where old toys are made new and live happy lives.

Subject

Genre/Form

Fiction.

Note

"Printed ... by the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, Inc."
"Distributed in Canada by the Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd."
CTSN copy 2: In col. pictorial paper-covered boards, orange cloth spine; title with variant of ill. on p. [11] on front cover; ill. on back cover; orange endpapers with white dots. Dust jacket: Covers repeat binding with added spine title; price $2.00 and blurb on front flap, blurb continued on back flap.
CTSN copy 2: Tillson
On the final page of the text is a note describing the historical origins of some of the toys depicted in the story. For example, Háry János, the Obsitos, the story's main character, is inspired by a famous character of Hungarian literature, while other characters are modeled on toys found in various European museums.
Lacks dust jacket.
Inscription of 'Molly Jones Xmas 1933' on front pastedown.
Included in the Tillson Collection for its connection with Zoltán Kodály's opera Háry János.

Provenance (note)

Jones, Molly, owner
Cotsen copy is in the Diana Rexford Tillson Collection, the gift of Lloyd E. Cotsen '50.

Binding (note)

CTSN copy: Pub. orange cloth and color-printed bds. with matching dust jacket and orange endpapers printed in white.

LCCN

33029354

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library