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Fly High Fly Low
by Don Freeman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good+
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author on page opposite the half-title page. First Edition, second printing (January 1958). Blue cloth boards pictorially stamped in yellow. Light fading along top edge of boards. Illustrated endpapers. Light smudge at top of half-title page; light indentation on page 19 of a showing a hand-drawn bird (in the bottom corner); otherwise interior is clean; pages crisp. Dust jacket has some light wear at spine ends and corners; rear panel has a tear (also seen on spine) and some creasing at its bottom right corner; front flap is price clipped and has a child's name inscribed on it; in a clear archival sleeve. 56 pp. 11.25 x 8 inches. The story of Sid the pigeon and Madge, a dove, who share a nest tucked into the letter ''B'' of an electric sign atop a tall building in San Francisco. An endearing story portrayed amidst views of the city, the Bay, Fisherman's Wharf, the Golden Gate Bridge, Chinatown, and its cable cars. Rear panel of dust jacket lists five earlier books written and/or illustrated by Freeman: Chuggy and the Blue Caboose (1951), Pet of the Met (1953), Beady Bear (1954), Mop Top (1955), and Third Monkey (1956).
Synopsis
Sid the pigeon is very choosy about finding just the right home in the magnificent city of san Francisco. And find it he does, in the loop of a huge b in an electric sign high up on a skyscraper. sid?s view of san Francisco is without equal. so sid asks the lovely dove Midge to share his home. but one morning, while Midge is taking her turn sitting on two eggs, disaster strikes. A truck comes and workers take down the letters on the skyscraper one by one. winner of a Caldecott Honor, Fly High, Fly Low is a heartwarming story of two birds making a home?and then making another one?in one of America?s great cities.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013186
- Title
- Fly High Fly Low
- Author
- Don Freeman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- children's, illustrated, picture book, San Francisco, birds,
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