Thunder and Lightnings

Mark, Jan

Verlag: Kestrel Books, London, 1976

Beschreibung

First UK Edition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO JILL PATON WALSH. Publisher's blue boards with gilt spine lettering. A near fine copy in a VG+ D/W with a short 1.2 cm closed tear with associated crease to the top edge of the front panel and with a hint of rubbing to the corners. Inscribed by the Author to the title page: "To Jill & John/ love from Jane/ 17.5.89/ - a remembrance of things past". From the collection of the late Jill Paton Walsh (1937-2020) and John Rowe Townsend (who died in 2014). Thunder and Lightnings, the author's first novel, was written for (and won) the Kestrel/Guardian prize for a children's novel by a previously unpublished writer, and then won the 1977 Carnegie Medal (a British literary award that annually recognises one outstanding new English-language book for children or young adults). It is conferred upon the author by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). (Most unusually, the author won the medal in 1984, for Handles). WITH THE VERY SCARCE WRAP-AROUND BAND announcing WINNER OF THE 1975 KESTREL/GUARDIAN COMPETITION FOR THE MOST OUTSTANDING FIRST NOVEL BY A NEW WRITER FOR CHILDREN. ISBN: 0 7226 5195 3. Photographs/scans available upon request. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 355490721015

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Thunder and Lightnings

Verlag: Kestrel Books, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1976

Einband: Hard Cover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Dust Jacket

Signiert: Signed by Author

Auflage: First Edition.