From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by Konigsburg, E.L
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- first
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About This Item
Stated first edition of this classic runaway story from Konigsburg, and her second book. Published in 1967, the work won the Newbery award in 1968, edging out her first book, Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, which was published in the same year. Very tough to find in first edition.
Synopsis
When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because be was a miser and would have money. Claudia was a good organizer and Jamie bad some ideas, too; so the two took up residence at the museum right on schedule. But once the fun of settling in was over, Claudia had two unexpected problems: She felt just the same, and she wanted to feel different; and she found a statue at the Museum so beautiful she could not go home until she bad discovered its maker, a question that baffled the experts, too. The former owner of the statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Without her-well, without her, Claudia might never have found a way to go home.
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- Bookseller
- Peruse the Stacks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6369
- Title
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- Author
- Konigsburg, E.L
- Format/Binding
- 8vo, 162pp. Publisher's red cloth stamped in black in illustrated jacket. Black and white illustrations from the author througho
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
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