Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, Signed (2 results)

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).