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The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963 (signed)
by Curtis, Christopher Paul (signed)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine condition/Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385321759
- ISBN 13
- 9780385321754
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Delacorte Press, 1995. INSCRIBED / SIGNED and DATED (4/30/96) by the AUTHOR, directly on the half title page. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Fine dust jacket. With both Newbery Honor award and Coretta Scott King Award silver seals on the dust jacket's front panel. NO fading, creases, chips or tears. NOT price clipped ($14.95). Sharp corners. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Bound in the original red boards with black spine, stamped in red. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "The Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of BUD, NOT BUDDY, a Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott Award Winner. Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's thirteen and an 'official juvenile delinquent.' When Byron gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma's church is blown up. AN ALA TOP TEN BEST BOOK AN ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN'S BOOK AN IRA YOUNG ADULT'S CHOICE A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK NAMED TO MULTIPLE STATE AWARD LISTS 'Every so often a book becomes a modern classic almost as soon as it arrives on bookshelves. That happened in the mid-'90s when Christopher Paul Curtis released his first book, THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM -- 1963.' - NPR.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. 5th printing of the 1995 original. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. (x), 211pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Synopsis
Christopher Paul Curtis was born in Flint, Michigan, and grew up there. Bud, Not Buddy , his second novel, winner of the 2000 Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Author Award, is available in a Delacorte hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963 (signed)
- Author
- Curtis, Christopher Paul (signed)
- Illustrator
- NOT a library discard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 5th printing of the 1995 original
- ISBN 10
- 0385321759
- ISBN 13
- 9780385321754
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books / Young Adult Literature;
- Size
- 8vo. (x), 211pp
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