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Sale 386: Illustrated Books – Fine Printing – Books in All Fields (#386) 08/21/2008 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 08/21/2008 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #60 A Wrinkle In Time

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$11,250

Estimate: $5,000 - $8,000

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Title:

A Wrinkle In Time

Author:

L'Engle, Madeleine

Place Published:

[New York]

Publisher:

Ariel Books/Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

Date Published:

[1962]

Description:

[10], 211 pp. (8vo) cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First Edition.

First Edition of of the 1963 Newberry Medal winner, the 1965 Sequoyah Book Award, and the 1965 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. The first in the author's series of novels for children of the Murry and O'Keefe families. Extremely rare in the first edition, According to ABPC no copies have appeared at auction in more than 15 years.

Condition:

Very minor wear to jacket, primarily at spine ends, light browning to jacket edges and folds, small stain at foot of rear jacket panel; light wear to cloth at spine ends, faint stain on rear board corresponding with stain on jacket; small spot of foxing on front free endpaper; overall near fine in a like jacket.

Item#:

195185

Headline:

L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time First Edition in dj
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