Many of the books are inscribed to both Cuthbert and his great friend of more than two decades Antonia Gale Moss. Joseph Heller once wrote to Tubby in response to one more "please sign and return" request: "This is turning out to be a hell of a lot of work!" All signed books unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic. From the collection of Cuthbert Christian Thambimuttu (1945-2019) of Columbus, Ohio - known to many of his bookseller, author, and illustrator friends as "Tubby." He was persistent in the pursuit of autographed books by the writers and artists he admired, including Gorey, Sendak, Heaney, Byatt, Morrison, Updike and many more. this book is signed by the author Karen Russell on the title-page. this book is hard-bound in light green paper covered boards, with a dark green paper covered spine with gilt stamping to the spine, in a nice dust jacket with some light handling wear. As Ava sets out on a mission through the magical swamps to save them all, we are drawn into a lush and bravely imagined debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality.(Publisher). But when illness fells Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness.
ABOUT THIS BOOK: Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family's island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. Green paper over boards with spine backed in blue and lettered in silver.
Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve.
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