World's End (Dormia) (Signed First Edition)

Halpern, Jake; Kujawinski, Peter

ISBN 10: 0547480377 / ISBN 13: 9780547480374

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, 2010

About this Item

New York, 2010. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A tight clean copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($18.00). SIGNED BY AUTHOR on a special author's bookplate affixed to front end paper. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free.  

Seller Inventory # F2100-YA-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: World's End (Dormia) (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0547480377
• ISBN 13: 9780547480374
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

After learning that his presumed-dead father may still be alive, Alfonso Perplexon, now 15-years old, undertakes the dangerous task of returning to the land of Dormia to search for him.

About the Authors

Jake Halpern is a journalist and author born in 1975. His book, Braving Home was a main selection for the Book of the Month Club by Bill Bryson and was a Library Journal Book of the Year. He is a contributor to NPR's All Things Considered and This American Life. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, The New Republic, Slate, Smithsonian, Entertainment Weekly, Outside, New York Magazine, and other publications. He is a fellow of Morse College at Yale University, where he teaches a class on writing.

When he isn't writing, Peter is a Foreign Serice Officer with the U.S. Department of State. Over the last ten years, he's lived in Israel, Haiti, and France. Currently, he is assigned to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York. Peter attended both the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has published commentary in the International Herald Tribune. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.