| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm |
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age Children |
| Note |
Oscar De Mejo, a painter and children's-book illustrator, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 80 years old and also had a home in Pawling, N.Y. Mr. De Mejo's primitive and sometimes surreal paintings have been exhibited in the United States and in Europe. In the 1980's, he wrote and illustrated several children's books, including "Does God Have a Big Toe?" (with Marc Gellman), "Journey to Boc Boc," "There's a Hand in the Sky" and "The Tiny Visitor." Mr. De Mejo was born in 1911 in Trieste, at the time part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. After law school, he had a brief career in Hollywood as a jazz composer. His first wife was the actress Alida Valli. |
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"A Laura Geringer book." |
| Summary |
Paintings illustrate scenes from Americana for each letter of the alphabet. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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United States. |
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History. |
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English language -- Alphabet -- Juvenile literature.
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English language -- Alphabet. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Juvenile works.
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| Added Title |
ABC |
| Other Form: |
Online version: De Mejo, Oscar. Oscar de Mejo's ABC. 1st ed. [New York, N.Y.] : HarperCollins, ©1992 (OCoLC)638676902 |
| ISBN |
0060205164 |
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9780060205164 |
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0060205172 (library binding) |
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9780060205171 (library binding) |
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