The Eleventh Hour, A Curious Mystery
by Graeme Base
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- Seller
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Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. As New in Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover, Pictorial. An elephant's eleventh birthday party is marked by eleven games preceding the banquet to be eaten at the eleventh hour, but when the time to eat arrives, the birthday feast has disappeared. The reader is invited to guess the thief. At the end of the book is a 7-page "Inside Story" that gives the solution as well as detailed explanations of all the clues and puzzles in the illustrations. The seal has is intact. For detective types, if one determines who may have stolen the feast, there is a page on which the name of the thief can be used to decode a hidden message which tells one who stole the feast and how it was done.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The FW Collections (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C74
- Title
- The Eleventh Hour, A Curious Mystery
- Author
- Graeme Base
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Illustrations repeated on dj. 1/16 in tear in dust jacket at base of spinePinted Illust
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Abrams
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1989
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
- Size
- 12.75x9.5
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