A Valley Grows Up
by Osmond, Edward
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Oxford University Press, 1953. A first edition, first printing published by Oxford University Press 1953. A very good without inscriptions, in like unclipped wrapper with wear and tear to the spine tips and corners. It features an imaginary English valley over the course of seven thousand years, from 5000 BCE to 1900. Osmond won the annual Carnegie Medal, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.[2] In more than seventy years only a handful of nonfiction books have been so honoured.
Synopsis
A Valley Grows Up is a history book for children written and illustrated by Edward Osmond, first published in 1953. It follows the changes in an imaginary English valley over the course of seven thousand years, from 5000 BC to 1900. It was awarded the Carnegie Medal for 1953, one of the rare non-fiction books to receive the award.
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Details
- Seller
- John Atkinson Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 14634
- Title
- A Valley Grows Up
- Author
- Osmond, Edward
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
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John Atkinson Books
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Harrogate, North Yorkshire
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