Arilla Sun Down Unknown - 1976

Greenwillow Books. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover; First Printing. 0688840582 . Ex-Library; 19 oz.; 248 pages; Good+ Ex library HC w/DJ librar markings/tape tabs/DJ price clipped o/w very nice clean/tight/bright. Welve-year-old Arilla Adams has walked in her brother Jack's shadow for as long as she can remember. He knows who he is. Arilla understands that she is Aerind (part African American, part Native American) , but she cannot identify with just one race like Jack, who identifies with being Native American. Only after saving her brother's life, can she discover her true identity. .

Greenwillow Books, 1976-09. Library Binding. Very Good/Near Fine. Former Resource Center copy with Clean, tight pages, Ffep neatly removed. Price-clipped Dust jacket has small library sticker, else Fine, now protected in a New archival grade mylar sleeve Trust an experienced independent bookseller since 1988. Orders are shipped daily via USPS with delivery confirmation.

William Morrow & Co Library, 1976-09. Library Binding. Good.

New York: Greenwillow Books. A Division of William Morrow, 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Library binding issue. Slightly cocked spine and foxing on the page edges else near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with "Greenwillow Library Edition" on the spine and slight edgewear.

New York: Greenwillow Books (William Morrow), 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by the author to a librarian on the title page, dated 'ALA '82.' First Edition. 1976. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Tight, clean copy. DJ with a faint smudge near the bottom of the front panel. DJ now in mylar. This is the version with the tan cloth-backed boards binding; copyright page lists only the isbn for the reinforced library binding. Hamilton is a National Book Award and Newbery Medal winner.

New York: Greenwillow Books, 1976. Fine in fine jacket.. Inscribed first edition of the classic '70s YA novel about a sensitive adolescent exploring her own identity and her family's history, published the year after Hamilton became the first Black author to be awarded the Newbery Medal. ARILLA, about an interracial family and especially young Arilla's place in it, conveys a theme found in many of her best books, that of African American girls coming to embrace their true selves. A stellar copy. 8'' x 5.5''. Original quarter yellow cloth with gilt-stamped yellow boards. In original unclipped ($7.95) pictorial dust jacket by James McMullan. 248, [2] pages. Inscribed by Hamilton on title page: "To Mark Taylor - For the inexplicable in us all - Sincerely, Virginia Hamilton / San Francisco '77." Slight edgewear.