Music for the End of Time

Bryant & Stratton Commercial School [Bryant College]

ISBN 10: 0802852297 / ISBN 13: 9780802852298

Published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Grand Rapids, MI, 2005

About this Item

Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2005. First edition, first printing, with a personalized inscription signed by the author on the title page. Glazed pictorial hardcover with matching dustjacket. Fine condition looks and feels new and unread, tight binding, clean pages, no other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [17.00] and is also fine with no chips or tears. Inscribed by The Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Seller Inventory # 042296

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Music for the End of Time
• Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Grand Rapids, MI
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802852297
• ISBN 13: 9780802852298
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's Books

About this title

Synopsis

Presents the story of how French composer Olivier Messiaen was able to overcome the desolation of a World War II prison camp through the power of music.

About the Author

Jen Bryant — writer, poet, biographer — has authored several books for young readers, including Thomas Merton: Poet, Prophet, Priest (Eerdmans), which was named to the New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age List, and the young adult novel-in-verse The Trial (Knopf), a Junior Library Guild Selection. Jen lives in Uwchland, Pennsylvania.

Beth Peck has illustrated many books for children, including Just Like Josh Gibson written by Angela Johnson (Simon & Schuster); A Picture of Grandmother by Esther Hautzig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), an Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Honor Book; and Bicycle Madness by Jane Kurtz (Henry Holt). Beth Peck lives in Menomonie, Wisconsin.