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Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair. (SIGNED)
by Polacco, Patricia
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0399229434
- ISBN 13
- 9780399229435
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Philomel Books, 1996. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Quarto. Unpaginated. Hardcover with a white pictorial dust jacket, now in mylar. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The front panel of the jacket has a 1996 30th Anniversary "Reading is Fundamental" sticker. A sound, clean copy.
Synopsis
How much TV is too much TV? Welcome to Triple Creek, where the townspeople watch TV day and night. They watch it when they're eating, working, playing, and sleeping. They even use TVs to teach the kids at school. But when Eli's eccentric Aunt Chip (who refuses to own a TV) discovers that her nephew and her neighbors don't remember how to read, she pulls the plug on the whole town?using books that have been piled high to build a dam to spread the magic of reading all around.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027462
- Title
- Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair. (SIGNED)
- Author
- Polacco, Patricia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0399229434
- ISBN 13
- 9780399229435
- Publisher
- Philomel Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- 1996. Patricia Polacco. Signed. Inscribed. Collectible. Children's Book. Juvenile.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books; Signed Books & Association Copies;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Fine
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- Title Page
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