The Twenty-One Balloons
by William Pene Du Bois
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
-
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. very good. Large octavo. 9 1/2' x 6 1/4" 180. Red boards with pictorial paste-on to front cover.Black and white illustrations by author/illustrator, Du Bois. Some toning to endpapers. Lackiing dust jacket.
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
- Midway Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71798
- Title
- The Twenty-One Balloons
- Author
- William Pene Du Bois
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...