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Desperate Journey
by Murphy, Jim
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0439078067
- ISBN 13
- 9780439078061
- Seller
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
Item Price
£80.95£68.81
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About This Item
New York, Scholastic Press, 2006, hardcover, x-278 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, Signed by the Author without inscription "2007 Happy Reading Always, Jim Murphy" on the title page, Fine in Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight bump to heel of spine. As-new dustjacket is unclipped bearing original price. The author of more than 35 nonfiction and fiction books for children, young adults, and general audiences, including more than 30 about American history, and two-time Newberry Honoree presents an historic tale of family life amongst the workers on the Erie Canal in the mid-nineteenth century. Illustrated with a reproduction of a period map and a more current map of the area. Appended: About the Erie Canal, Glossary. ISBN 9780439078061
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- Bookseller
- West of Eden Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11224
- Title
- Desperate Journey
- Author
- Murphy, Jim
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0439078067
- ISBN 13
- 9780439078061
- Publisher
- Scholastic Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- This edition first published
- October 1, 2006
- Keywords
- 19th Century; Action & Adventure; Erie Canal (N.Y.); Family life; Fiction; General; Historical; Juvenile Fiction; New York; River boats; United States
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