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SIGNED by the Author, thick 8vo, black boards decorated with silver spine lettering and silver border on front cover, elaborately decorated full-color dust jacket (unclipped) with golden key-complication motif against a dark sky with full moon, circular black small sticker on dj stating "SIGNED COPY," profusely illustrated with B&W sketches by the author-artist, 533 pages + [1] Colophon. Exceptional novelistic-&-artistic novel! Won the Caldecott Medal for 2008! Made into an Academy Award-winning movie by Martin Scorcese. Exceptional Condition! "Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks--like the gears of the clocks he kees--with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life and his most precious secret,are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a sttolen key, a mechanical man, ad a hidden message from Hugo's dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding mystery."--jacket. Seller Inventory # 1494
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET; A Novel in ...
Publisher: Scholastic Press, New York
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Boards
Illustrator: Brian Selznick
Condition: Very Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
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