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The Arrival
by Tan, Shaun
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- ISBN 10
- 0439895294
- ISBN 13
- 9780439895293
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Arthur A. Levine Books. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9780439895293 . Sepia toned graphic drawings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 128 pages; 2007 Arthur A. Levine Books. Oversize HC in original glazed color pictorial boards. 1st edition, 1st printing with complete 1-10 printing line on copyright page. Binding is solid and contents fresh; no marks. Superficial shelf tapping to corner and spine tips; spine perhaps a trifle out of square. Tan's wordless graphic tale in the true 1st edition. Published without dust wrapper. VG+ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. .
Reviews
On Dec 17 2018, a reader said:
The Arrival is a graphic novel for young readers by award-winning Australian illustrator and author, Shaun Tan. The father is packing his case, taking his leave of his wife and daughter to travel far away. There's the hint of something threatening that makes this necessary. A train journey, a ship takes him (and many others) a long way away (it must be a long way because there are sixty different cloud formations seen).
Then they arrive, are processed, and suddenly, here he is, on his own, away from everything familiar. He needs a place to stay, food to eat, a job. But when he asks a local, they are helpful and friendly. He somehow acquires a helpful pet. Others, refugees too, who have come before him, share their stories of what they left behind. He is welcomed. He works hard, and eventually, he can send money to his family, so they can join him.
Shaun Tan is such a talented artist and author! Without any words (well, any in a known language, at least) he tells this moving and heart-warming story. The pictures are evocative: from the passport photos on the endpapers, to the tiny images of detail that draw back to show their place in a larger image, to the stains and creases that make it look like a well-used travel document, to the fantastically different place of arrival, all are wonderfully done.
It's a story that those people who are grumbling about refugees need to read. And for anyone who has come from their home to settle in a strange land, a place where they know no-one, where the people dress differently, where the food and drink, the animals, the climate, the language, the customs and the people are all different from what they know, for these people, the story Tan so eloquently conveys with his art will strike a chord. Utterly brilliant!
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50928
- Title
- The Arrival
- Author
- Tan, Shaun
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0439895294
- ISBN 13
- 9780439895293
- Publisher
- Arthur A. Levine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- 9780439895293
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children''s Books;
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
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About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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