Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, First Edition (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The book appears unread with the wraps complete. The spine has sun fade and there is some very light warping along the spine. The edges have some dings and there are a few small dents to the back wrap. Any questions, please email. If you would like more images of this book, I can send via email.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dutton (NY) 1978 First Edition, First Printing. Good in quarter cloth over boards in a Very Good + DJ, not price clipped, the original $7.95 remains intact. This copy is a former library book but with few markings, only one stamp on the title page and a card pocket on the front free end page. Clear tape tabs on the books boards. There is a small diagonal damp on the lower right corner of the pages which mostly effects the first eight and the last nine pages. This copy has had the Newberry Award sticker put on the DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First printing with the complete number line as well as stating, "First Edition". Cloth and boards. Bumps to the corners and crimping to the spine ends. There is some fading to the extreme upper spine end. The interior is very clean and without marks of any kind. The dust jacket has some crimping at the spine ends. A 1" tear with short, associated crease to the upper, rear edge, at the spine. Original price of $7.95 to the front flap. There is no Newbery Award to the jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages.

First edition, second printing of Raskins's Newbery Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Barbara Nelson Boom! Ellen Raskin 6.25.79." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. Scarcely seen signed and inscribed. In Raskin's Newbery Award-winning mystery The Westing Game, wealthy industrialist Sam Westing dies and, in his will, calls for his sixteen heirs to meet at his mansion where he sets out a game in which they are paired out with a set of clues and $10,000 with which they are challenged to determine who killed Westing and why. The book went on to win the Newbery Medal, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award and was an ALA Notable Book. It was ranked number nine among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal in 2012. It has been adapted as the 1997 feature film Get a Clue.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. E.P. Dutton, New York. 1978. 8vo 185 pages. First edition, first printing. Signed, inscribed and dated by Ellen Raskin directly to the half-title page: For __ __, Boom! Ellen Raskin 6.27.79. Full numberline present on copyright page: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Winner of the 1979 Newbery Medal, edging out Katherine Paterson's the Great Gilly Hopkins. First issue DJ lacking the the Newbery medal sticker on front; along with $7.95 price intact on DJ flap. Book is nearly near fine with the exception of two bumped corners. Tiny minor scuff on side page deck. DJ is bright and attractine. especially in light of it being black, making it all the more difficult to hide general edge rubbing. DJ is nearly NF with the exception of a small wrinkle on DJ rear, and a tiny chip to edge. A most uncommon signed first edition, first printing, in the desirable first state DJ without the Newbery Medal present. In 2012 The Westing Game was ranked number nine all-time among children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. EP Dutton, 1978 New York. 8vo 185 pages. First edition, 1st printing. States FIRST EDITION and has 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the copyright page. Winner of the 1979 Newbery Medal, edging out Katherine Paterson's the Great Gilly Hopkins. $7.95 price intact on DJ flap. Newbery Medal winner sticker was slapped on the DJ flap, thus pushing the DJ to second state. Book is nearly near fine. Previous owner's name neatly written on upper corner of front free end-paper. Only most faint trace of soiling/shelf-wear. DJ shows rubbing along edges with a couple of tiny rubs at corner tips and foot of backstrip. In 2012 The Westing Game was ranked number nine all-time among children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal. A near fine book in a VG dj.

First edition. First edition. John Newbery Medal winner. Fine in a fine bright dust jacket with John Newbery medal affixed to the front cover. A cleverly devised puzzle mystery. Sixteen people were invited to the reading of a very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. They could become millionaires, depending on how they played the game. The not-quite-perfect heirs were paired, and each pair was given $10,000 and a set of clues, of which no two sets of clues were alike. All they had to do was find the answer, but the answer to what? The Westing game was tricky and dangerous, but the heirs played on, through blizzards and burglaries and bombs bursting in air. And one of them won! A better read than many of today's contemporary mystery novels. Housed in a colorfully decorative clamshell case with the book's dust jacket design replicated on the front cover.