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Doodle Flute
by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0027746356
- ISBN 13
- 9780027746358
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1991. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Near Fine. Stated First edition, first printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Daniel Pinkwater with self-portrait doodle on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($12.95) with faint age-toning to edges, else bright and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. Written and illustrated by Daniel Pinkwater.
"One day, Kevin Spoon was sitting on the fence.
Someone came down the alley.
It was Mason Mintz.
A weird kid.
Mason Mintz lived up the street.
He wore cheap sneakers.
He had a plaid hat.
He always wore it."
And his parents grew pumpkins in their backyard. But Mason also owned a doodle flute."
Kevin Spoon, a wealthy kid who gets everything he wants, learns a lesson about the value of ownership when he is given a doodle flute by Mason Mintz, but is not told how to play it.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2102
- Title
- Doodle Flute
- Author
- Daniel Manus Pinkwater
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0027746356
- ISBN 13
- 9780027746358
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
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