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Dogsong (boldly signed in blue felt-tip)
by Paulsen, Gary
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine condition/Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0027701808
- ISBN 13
- 9780027701807
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1985. Signed by the Author on the title page (his signature only). Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($16.00). Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. The jacket has the "Newbery Honor Book" seal, and an "Autographed Copy" sticker. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. For age 12 and up. Bound in the original boards, with a maroon cloth spine lettered in bright metallic blue. Complete with dust jacket. Summary: "A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own 'song' of himself." . Signed by Author (on title page - signature only). Later printing. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Waldman, Neil (jacket painting). (x), 177pp.
Synopsis
Dogsong is a 1985 young adult novel by Gary Paulsen and is a Newbery Honor Book. It is about a fourteen-year-old Eskimo, Russel Susskit, who is searching for answers about his life that he cannot find. His father could not tell him the answers--but a blind old man named Oogruk, sets him in the right direction.
Reviews
On Oct 15 2009, 12GreydeErikSmith said:
Hey i love this book and i have three books of gary paulsen and they are Harris and me , Hatchet , and dogsong. and so far dogsong is going good and i`m like oh my god this is great and i just want to find more and more if i could but i don`t have money to do it but man i love the books i have.Just to want you people know i didn`t like reading until i` readed Harris and me and i love it now. so to want you people that have never read , harris and me is the first good book to read but that what i think and you can try everybody else favorite book it doesn`t matter just have fun reading it.I say give reading a try and do your best. so to all you readers have a good day oh and i think the y should of made a movie of harris and me but i don`t want them messing it up. well see you
love
Greyde Smith
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Dogsong (boldly signed in blue felt-tip)
- Author
- Paulsen, Gary
- Illustrator
- Waldman, Neil (jacket painting)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- Later printing
- ISBN 10
- 0027701808
- ISBN 13
- 9780027701807
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Juvenile literature.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books / Young Adult Literature;
- Size
- (x), 177pp
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