Roller Skates
by Sawyer, Ruth and Angelo, Valenti
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good +/good -
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1942. Sixth printing. Very Good +/good -. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, "To the boys & girls - with salutions from Lucinda - and Ruth Sawyer" and SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. Valenti Angelo, on the half title page. "Roller Skates" won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1937. It is a fictionalized account of one year of Sawyer's life. Angelo was a very prominent book designer and illustrator having done many book for the Grabhorn Press and the Limited Editions Club. Dustjacket is chipped along top and bottom edges with some loss not affecting text and has three small closed tears. Also has Newbery Medal seal on front panel. The book itself is bright, clean, and unmarked with decorated endpapers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Northern Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5144
- Title
- Roller Skates
- Author
- Sawyer, Ruth and Angelo, Valenti
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Sixth printing
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile;
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