Whoop An' Shout! Poems (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, VALERIE BLOOM)

Bloom, Valerie

ISBN 10: 0333998111 / ISBN 13: 9780333998113

Published by Macmillan Children's Books, London, 2003

About this Item

NrF/Fine. First Edition, First Printing in d/w not price clipped. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, VALERIE BLOOM, without dedication on front endpaper. Signing reads, 'Best Wishes/Valerie Bloom'. Profusely illustrated with line-drawings by David Dean. A collection of poems for children by the Jamaican-born poet Valerie Bloom (born 1956). There is a short shallow indentation to front cover; minor bruising to head and tail of spine; else a near fine copy, in a fine d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, VALERIE BLOOM. Seller Inventory # 18756

Bibliographic Details

Title: Whoop An' Shout! Poems (SCARCE HARDBACK ...

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books, London

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author, Valerie Bloom

Edition: First Edition, First Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

A collection of Valerie Bloom`s distinctively lyrical poems, which sparkle with exuberance and wit.

About the Author:

Valerie Bloom was born in Clarendon, Jamaica and came to England in 1979. She has performed her poetry extensively throughout Britain and the Caribbean in schools, universities, theatres and at festivals such as Edinburgh and Cheltenham. Her poems have been included in Poems on the Underground and in the NEAB 1998 GCSE English Literature Anthology. We published her Selected Poems for Children, Let Me Touch the Sky (ISBN 0 330 39216 6), in 2000 and her first novel, Surprising Joy (0 333 96393 8), is also published this August.