THE TWENTY-ONE BALLOONS
by Pene Du Bois, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0670734411
- ISBN 13
- 9780670734412
- Seller
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Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Viking Books for Young Readers. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition; Fourteenth Printing. Hardcover. 0670734411 . A very attractive reprint copy. The text is quite spotless. The colorful jacket is intact, with a closed tear at the top. A mylar Brodart now protects it. Fast shipping, with tracking number provided. ; 9.9 X 6.5 X 0.7 inches; 192 pages .
Synopsis
The Twenty-One Balloons is a novel by William Pène du Bois, published in 1947 and awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1948. The story is about a retired schoolteacher whose ill-fated balloon trip leads him to discover an island full of great wealth and fantastic inventions. The events and ideas are based both on scientific fact and imagination, and the descriptions are accompanied by illustrations by du Bois.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Autumn Leaves Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42447
- Title
- THE TWENTY-ONE BALLOONS
- Author
- Pene Du Bois, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; Fourteenth Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670734411
- ISBN 13
- 9780670734412
- Publisher
- Viking Books for Young Readers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- 0670734411
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About the Seller
Autumn Leaves Books
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About Autumn Leaves Books
Internet only, in business since 2000, specializing in the obscure, the scholarly, the unusual. Most jackets are mylar-protected.
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- Jacket
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- Brodart
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- Reprint
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- Fine
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