Christopher Paul Curtis Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Delacorte Press, New York. 1999. Hardcover. 14th Printing by Line Number. Signed by author on a bookplate on the FFFP and inscribed on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bump to tail and to upper tips. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($16.95); light bumping to head and tail. Blue boards with blue overlay on the spine with bright copper lettering on the spine. 245 pp 8vo. This is an adolescent novel set in 1936 in Flint Michigan with a motherless 10 year-old African-American boy on the run. He has a suitcase and a flyer giving him a clue about his father. In his search for him, there are plenty of characters, jazz, and the Great Depression to deal with as he seeks out this mystery man. A clean very presentable copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrator). 5th printing of the 1995 original. New York: Delacorte Press, 1995. INSCRIBED / SIGNED and DATED (4/30/96) by the AUTHOR, directly on the half title page. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Fine dust jacket. With both Newbery Honor award and Coretta Scott King Award silver seals on the dust jacket's front panel. NO fading, creases, chips or tears. NOT price clipped ($14.95). Sharp corners. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Bound in the original red boards with black spine, stamped in red. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "The Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of BUD, NOT BUDDY, a Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott Award Winner. Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's thirteen and an 'official juvenile delinquent.' When Byron gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma's church is blown up. AN ALA TOP TEN BEST BOOK AN ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN'S BOOK AN IRA YOUNG ADULT'S CHOICE A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK NAMED TO MULTIPLE STATE AWARD LISTS 'Every so often a book becomes a modern classic almost as soon as it arrives on bookshelves. That happened in the mid-'90s when Christopher Paul Curtis released his first book, THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM -- 1963.' - NPR.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. 5th printing of the 1995 original. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. (x), 211pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father-the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. Signed and dated (04/04/00) by author on the half-title page. A Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winner. This book and its Mylar-protected dust-jacket are immaculate inside and out. A beautiful signed copy! 243 pgs. Signed by Author(s).