Sounder
by William Armstrong
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good ++
- Seller
-
San Diego, California, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Row, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Is Protected In An Archival Mylar Sleeve. Not a Former Library Copy. A Couple Of short closed tears to edges of jacket, else Fine. Clean, tight & unmarked text. P.O. name covered with new unmarked bookplate on Ffep. $3.95 price on DJ. Trust an experienced independent bookseller since 1988. Orders are shipped daily via USPS with delivery confirmation.
Synopsis
Sounder is a young adult novel by William H. Armstrong. It is the story of an African-American boy living with his sharecropper family in Depression-era Louisiana. Although the family's difficulties increase when the father is imprisoned for stealing pig meat and chicken, the boy still hungers for an education. Sounder won the Newbery Award in 1970, and was made in to a major motion picture in 1972.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Prince and Pauper
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 102413
- Title
- Sounder
- Author
- William Armstrong
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good ++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Date Published
- 1969
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Independent Bookseller
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- First Edition
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- Bookplate
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