Search Results: Authors starting with R from Uncommon Sense

Short Hills NJ: Ridley Enslow, 1978. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First hardcover edition, preceded by the Ace paperback. This appears to be an early effort of what became the Enslow Publishing Company, which does books for grades K-12. Under the name of Ridley Enslow Publishing, they seem to have done just a handful of books in 1977-78, of which this may be the only work of fiction (and is very likely their only book of science fiction). This is a fine copy, in an unclipped (and unpriced) dustjacket -- tight and clean. It's not a common book, and the reason these people published it seems to appear on the jacket flap: the American Library Association proclaimed it one of the top 24 books for young adults published in 1977. Enslow apparently decided that it deserved to have a hardcover, and put money where his thoughts went. tw - no idea whence