The Twenty-One Balloons

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Overview:

Title: The Twenty-One Balloons
Author: William Pène du Bois
Year: 1947
Publisher: The Viking Press
Price: $2.50
Pages: 179
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Title Reference: The Twenty-One Balloons
Notes:
- 1st ed.
- Price from 1947-04-20 newspapers (earliest items found): • listing in "Books Received", NY Herald Tribune pE28 • advertisement "Viking Junior Books", NY Times pBR24
- Cover Front jacket (displayed here) is identical to that of the UK ed., from dealer images at ABEbooks. Several dealers provide images of the front book cover, "Red cloth spine with basket weave patterned paper covered boards." The quoted dealer also shows the spine, frontispiece and title leaf (bi=22458866506). -- title page: "Mcmxlvii" -- copyright page (quote 3 lines, small caps): First published by the Viking Press in April 1947 Published on the same day in the Dominion of Canada By the Macmillan Company of Canada Limited
- Only two ABEbooks dealers report page-count today, both 180.