Anthony Burns : The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
by Hamilton, Virginia
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394881850
- ISBN 13
- 9780394881850
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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Synopsis
Virginia Hamilton's many awards include the Newbery Medal and National Book Award for M.C. Higgins the Great ; the Coretta Scott King Medal for The People Could Fly ; and the Hans Christian Andersen Award for the body of her work.
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- Bookseller
- About Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014350
- Title
- Anthony Burns : The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
- Author
- Hamilton, Virginia
- Illustrator
- Dillon, Leo and Diane (jacket art)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394881850
- ISBN 13
- 9780394881850
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Bookseller catalogs
- Black Studies; Children's Books / Young Adult Literature;
- Size
- 8vo. xiii, 194pp
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