Figgs and Phantoms.

RASKIN, Ellen.

$400.00

Item Number: 96261

New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1974.

First edition of the author’s Newbery Honor book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Norine – My best booster & good friend, Thanks for everything – Ellen Raskin.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some small closed tears to the rear panel.

American children's writer and illustrator Ellen Raskin's Figgs and Phantoms was a Newbery Honor Book in 1975; she later won the 1979 Newbery Medal for her subsequent young adult mystery novel, The Westing Game. Figgs & Phantoms centers on Mona Lisa Figg Newton, a teenage girl living in the fictional town of Pineapple with her eccentric family.