The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
by Sis, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New with No dust jacket as issued
- ISBN 10
- 0374347018
- ISBN 13
- 9780374347017
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Frances Foster Books. As New with No dust jacket as issued. 2007. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0374347018 . Publisher's full brown paper-covered boards, red lettering on spine, red star on cover, maps on endpapers. Profusely illustrated with color illustrations by the author. This book won the Caldecott Honor award and ALSC Robert F. Sibert Medal. In this, his 22nd book, Sis offers a brilliant illustrated memoir of his childhood and youth as an artist and music lover in Czechoslovakia from 1949 to 1989, including the collapse of the Communist Party. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW/AS NEW.. Color Plates. 4to 11" - 13" tall. (48) pp .
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"Frances Foster books." Gift of Nancy Johnson
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27147
- Title
- The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
- Author
- Sis, Peter
- Illustrator
- Peter Sis
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- New As New with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- Stated First Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374347018
- ISBN 13
- 9780374347017
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Frances Foster Books
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2007
- LCCN
- 2006049149
- Keywords
- 0374347018, Illustrated Books;, Czechoslovakia;, Iron Curtain;, Biography;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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