MANY THOUSAND GONE; AFRICAN-AMERICANS FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM
by Hamilton, Virginia
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- Fine
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- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0590738739
- ISBN 13
- 9780590738736
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About This Item
Scholastic, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Oversized paperback. Fine. Scholastic, c1996. first printing. 151pp., black and white illustrations throughout Leo and Diane Dillon. sm. 4to. Lower corner tip of back cover creased, else fine unread paperback, uncreased spine.
Synopsis
Virginia Hamilton , storyteller, lecturer, and biographer, was born and raised in Yellow Springs, OH, which is said to be a station on the Underground Railroad. Her grandfather settled in the village after escaping slavery in Virginia. She was educated at Antioch College and Ohio State University and did further study in literature and the novel at the New School for Social Research. Virginia was the first African American woman to win the Newbery Award, for M.C. Higgins the Great. Since then, she has won three Newbery Honors and three Coretta Scott King Awards. In 1992, Virginia was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, which is presented every two years by the International Board on Books for Young People, in recognition of her entire body of work. Virginia writes first for the pleasure of using words and language to evoke characters and their world, and in historical accounts such as Anthony Burns, the lives of real people. Secondly, Hamilton writes to entertain, to inspire in people the desire to read on and on good books made especially for them. Leo and Diane Dillon have twice won the Caldecott Medal
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- Bookseller
- Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100045
- Title
- MANY THOUSAND GONE; AFRICAN-AMERICANS FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM
- Author
- Hamilton, Virginia
- Format/Binding
- Oversized paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0590738739
- ISBN 13
- 9780590738736
- Publisher
- Scholastic
- Place of Publication
- Richmond Hill, Ont.
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- CHILDRENS. AFRICAN-AMERICAN
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art and textiles, poetry, children\'s and illustrated, Missouriana, antiquarian books.
Prints and maps are stocked as well.
Established 1977, member ABAA/ILAB
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