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Peachtree Publishers, Published 1999. Hardcover, [32] pp (unpaginated); 22 x 26 cm; Stated First Edition with a full number line; illustrated throughout in color by Gerald Fitzgerald. Signed by the author in ink on the title page, beneath the printed name; not inscribed.
In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Illustrated paper over boards with mild shelf wear and light bumping to board edges. Binding tight. Otherwise unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket shows a few small edge nicks and tears with light creasing along the edges and mild shelf wear; unclipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.A boy who longs to fly is lifted by a winter snowstorm and sails over a snow-covered Brooklyn, sweeping past Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Bridge, Ebbets Field, and especially Coney Island. An author's note recounts the historic blizzard of December 26, 1947, the greatest snowfall in Brooklyn's history at 25.8 inches deep. Uhlberg's first book for children.