A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope, Book the Tenth

Snicket, Lemony

ISBN 10: 1405210869 / ISBN 13: 9781405210867

Published by Egmont Books Limited, London, 2004

About this Item

Very good condition first edition, first printing hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket. Illustrated by Brett Helquist. Board edges, corners and spine ends are slightly bumped and rubbed. Page block is lightly tanned. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW.

Seller Inventory # 546173

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope, Book the Tenth
• Publisher: Egmont Books Limited, London
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405210869
• ISBN 13: 9781405210867
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Helquist, Brett
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children & Young Adult Reading

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Synopsis

Very good condition first edition, first printing hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket. Illustrated by Brett Helquist. Board edges, corners and spine ends are slightly bumped and rubbed. Page block is lightly tanned. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW

Review

What would you do if you found yourself trapped in a runaway caravan hurtling down a precipitous mountain slope? Fourteen-year-old Violet, the oldest orphan of the three Baudelaires, decides to try to slow the velocity of the caravan with a drag-chute invention involving a viscous combination of blackstrap molasses, maple syrup, maraschino liqueur, peanut butter, etc. If plummeting to their death weren't scary enough, Violet and her brother Klaus have been separated from Sunny, their baby sister who is in a car headed in the opposite direction up the mountain with the "facinorous" Count Olaf, his "villainous and stylish" girlfriend Esmé Squalor, and their creepy sidekicks. Do Violet and Klaus find Sunny on the mountain? How will they survive the treacherous, snow-covered peaks with not much more than a ukulele and a bread knife, especially in the face of the "organized, ill-tempered" snow gnats? Will they finally unearth the mystery of the V.F.D.? Will they find out if one of their parents is alive after all? The suspense! As ever, the Baudelaires' unfolding tale of woe is sprinkled with Lemony Snicket's ridiculous, hilarious observations such as "Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like." The tenth book in The Series of Unfortunate Events takes readers through the Mortmain Mountains to the churning waters of the Stricken Stream with all the coexistent horror and silliness a Snicket fan could hope for along the way. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson