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Kit's Wilderness (signed)
by Almond, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition./Fine dust jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0385326653
- ISBN 13
- 9780385326650
- Seller
-
Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Delacorte Press / Random House Children's Books, 2000. A bright, shiny, clean, square copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (15.95). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Young adult novel by the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year award-winning author of SKELLIG. BOLDLY SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the publisher's bookplate on the front free endpaper. Bound in the original beige boards, with a blue spine lettered in shiny gold. Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past." . Signed by the Author (signature only).. Later printing of 1st American edition.. Hard Cover. Fine condition./Fine dust jacket.. Illus. by Vojnar, Kamil (jacket art).. 8vo. (vi), 233pp..
Synopsis
The Printz Award--winning classic gets a new look.The Watson family moves to Stoneygate, an old coal-mining town, to care for Kit's recently widowed grandfather. When Kit meets John Askew, another boy whose family has both worked and died in the mines, Askew invites Kit to join him in playing a game called Death. As Kit's grandfather tells him stories of the mine's past and the history of the Watson family, Askew takes Kit into the mines, where the boys look to find the childhood ghosts of their long-gone ancestors. Written in haunting, lyrical prose, Kit's Wilderness examines the bonds of family from one generation to the next, and explores how meaning and beauty can be revealed from the depths of darkness.A Michael L. Printz Award WinnerAn ALA Notable Book A Publishers Weekly Best BookFrom the Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- About Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008604
- Title
- Kit's Wilderness (signed)
- Author
- Almond, David
- Illustrator
- Vojnar, Kamil (jacket art).
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition.
- Jacket Condition
- Fine dust jacket.
- Edition
- Later printing of 1st American edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0385326653
- ISBN 13
- 9780385326650
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press / Random House Children's Books
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 8vo. (vi), 233pp.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books / Young Adult Literature;
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About the Seller
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