Research Catalog

Title

Hortense : the cow for a queen / Natalie Savage Carlson ; illustrated by Nicolas.

Author

Carlson, Natalie Savage

Publication

• New York, New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1957]
• ©1957

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nicolas, 1911-1973
• Harcourt Brace & Company, publisher.

Description

94 pages : illustrations (black-&-white); 22 cm

Summary

Hortense is a placid, motherly cow in Normandy whose search for her firstborn take her first to Africa and then to a reunion with her calf in the Petit Trianon of Marie Antoinette.

Subjects

• Pirates > Juvenile fiction
• Voyages and travels > Juvenile fiction
• Humorous fiction
• Africa, North > Juvenile fiction
• Countesses > Juvenile fiction
• Illustrated children's books > New York (State) > 20th century > Specimens
• Cows > Juvenile fiction
• Children's stories, American > Women authors > 20th century
• Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 > Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile literature > New York (State) > New York > 1957
• Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) Juvenile fiction

Genre/Form

• Humorous fiction.
• Juvenile literature – New York (State) – New York – 1957.

Note

• Title vignette. Copyright and edition statements from title verso.

Language (note)

• Text in English.

Provenance (note)

• Bookplate, on upper pastedown, "ex libris hortense mendel."

Binding (note)

• Bound in publisher's pictorial yellow cloth boards. Upper board stamped with design of a cow staring at a pirate ; issued in white, blue, gold, and black printed pictorial paper just jacket.

Call Number

Rare Books 20-494

LCCN

57005537

OCLC

1456627

Author

Carlson, Natalie Savage, author.

Title

Hortense : the cow for a queen / Natalie Savage Carlson ; illustrated by Nicolas.

Publisher

New York, New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1957]

Copyright Date

©1957

Edition

First Edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Text in English.

Provenance

Bookplate, on upper pastedown, "ex libris hortense mendel." NN

Binding

Bound in publisher's pictorial yellow cloth boards. Upper board stamped with design of a cow staring at a pirate ; issued in white, blue, gold, and black printed pictorial paper just jacket. NN

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Added Author

Nicolas, 1911-1973, illustrator.

Harcourt Brace & Company, publisher.

Other Form:

Online version: Carlson, Natalie Savage. Hortense. 1st ed. New York : Harcourt, Brace ; c1957 (OCoLC)609515154

Research Call Number

Rare Books 20-494