Author: SIS, PETER
Title: The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
Description: NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Frances Foster Books, 2007. 0374347018. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0374347018. Illustrated by Peter Sis. Publisher's full brown paper-covered boards, red lettering on spine, red star on cover, maps on endpapers. Profusely illustrated with color illustrations by the author. This book won the Caldecott Honor award and ALSC Robert F. Sibert Medal. In this, his 22nd book, Sis offers a brilliant illustrated memoir of his childhood and youth as an artist and music lover in Czechoslovakia from 1949 to 1989, including the collapse of the Communist Party. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW/AS NEW.. Color Plates. 4to 11" - 13" tall. (48) pp. As New with No dust jacket as issued .

Keywords: 0374347018 Illustrated Books; Czechoslovakia; Iron Curtain; Biography; Illustrated Books Biography & Memoir Politics


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