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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
by Schlitz, Laura Amy
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0763615781
- ISBN 13
- 9780763615789
- Seller
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GIG HARBOR, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Candlewick, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Robert Byrd. First printing of this Newbery medalist, signed by both author and illustrator on title page, along with a doodle from the illustrator. Fine in fine jacket.
Synopsis
Laura Amy Schlitz is the author of THE HERO SCHLIEMANN: THE DREAMER WHO DUG FOR TROY and A DROWNED MAIDEN'S HAIR. She wrote the pieces in GOOD MASTERS! SWEET LADIES! for students at the Park School in Baltimore, where she works as a librarian. She has also worked as a storyteller, a costumer, an actress, and a playwright; her plays for young people have been produced in theaters all over the country. Laura Amy Schlitz lives in Baltimore. Robert Byrd teaches children’s book illustration at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He is the author-illustrator of many books, including LEONARDO: BEAUTIFUL DREAMER; FINN MACCOUL AND HIS FEARLESS WIFE; and THE HERO AND THE MINOTAUR. He also illustrated Laura Amy Schlitz’s first book for children, THE HERO SCHLIEMANN, about the life of a nineteenth-century amateur archaeologist. Robert Byrd lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2904
- Title
- Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
- Author
- Schlitz, Laura Amy
- Illustrator
- Robert Byrd
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0763615781
- ISBN 13
- 9780763615789
- Publisher
- Candlewick
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Ma
- Date Published
- 2007
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