The Twenty-One Balloons

Overview:

  • Title: The Twenty-One Balloons
  • Author: William Pène du Bois
  • Year: 1969
  • Publisher: Dell Yearling
  • Price: $0.75
  • Pages: 180
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Twenty-One Balloons
  • Notes:
    • copyright page "Published by Dell Publishing Co., Inc."; reprinted by arrangement with Viking
    • "First Dell printing--March 1969"; no number/letter line
    • back cover "0010-0014" (reader ages)
    • catalog number from spine "9183|75c"
    • cover illustration is reduced, color version of b/w drawing that spans p 176-77
    • last page unnumbered
    • one-page Author's Note signed 1947-01-16 concerns the resemblance to F. Scott Fitzgerald, "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz" (1922 novella): "this embarrassing and, to me, maddening coincidence"