Hardcover. First Edition/Third Printing. Very Good condition in Very Good unclipped dust jacket ("1974 winner" written in ink on inside front board). INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: "For Greg Choncaff, From Pamela Fox" on first blank fly leaf. Winner of 1974 Newbery Medal.
1974 Newbery Medal winner. 1ST ED, 2ND PRT, 1974. MEDAL ON DJ (and original $6.95 price). SIGNED/INSCRIBED: "FOR HELEN, PAULA FOX, APRIL 1991". Author died in 2017. "Jessie Bollier was thirteen when he was kidnapped, bound in canvas, and carried across the ocean to the coast of Africa. This is Jessie's story of his voyage". DJ has faint wear, otherwise fine. Book's top edge has tiny spot. A lovely copy! ALA 1974 AWARDS PAMPHLET "LAID-IN".
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