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Mirette On The High Wire  - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Mirette On The High Wire - 1st Edition/1st Printing

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Mirette On The High Wire - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by McCully, Emily Arnold

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Condition
Fine in Fine dust jacket
ISBN 10
0399221301
ISBN 13
9780399221309
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Laminated Boards. 0399221301 . A beautiful first edition/first printing in Fine condition in just about Fine, lightly yellowed dust-jacket with the Caldecott Medal. SIGNED and dated by author/illustrator Emily Arnold McCully across the title page, she further added a beautiful drawing of Mirette. Bound in aqua laminated boards, pictorial illustration on front cover, dark blue spine with lettering in pink and white, aqua endpapers; in dust-jacket with illustrations by McCully; Awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1993, McCully captures 19th Century Paris with her impressionistic watercolors. Mirette helps the great tightrope artist Bellini overcome fear and regain his confidence and spirit through her friendship, courage and perseverance; Color Illustrations; 4to ; [32] pages; Signed by Author & Illustrator .

Synopsis

One day, a mysterious stranger arrives at a boardinghouse of the widow Gateau- a sad-faced stranger, who keeps to himself. When the widow's daughter, Mirette, discovers him crossing the courtyard on air, she begs him to teach her how he does it. But Mirette doesn't know that the stranger was once the Great Bellini- master wire- walker. Or that Bellini has been stopped by a terrible fear. And it is she who must teach him courage once again. Emily Arnold McCully's sweeping watercolor paintings carry the reader over the rooftops of nineteenth-century Paris and into an elegant, beautiful world of acrobats, jugglers, mimes, actors, and one gallant, resourceful little girl.

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
24899
Title
Mirette On The High Wire - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author
McCully, Emily Arnold
Illustrator
Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully
Format/Binding
Laminated Boards
Book Condition
Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition
First Edition; First Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0399221301
ISBN 13
9780399221309
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1992
Keywords
Collectible Out-of-print Rare, Juvenile Literature Picture Book, Circus France
Bookseller catalogs
Awarded Illustrators; Awarded Books / Caldecott Medal;

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