Holes
New York: Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1998), 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-233, [1] pp. Quarter red paper over blue paper boards with red lettering on the spine and lettering in blind on the front board. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $16.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Vladimir Radunsky. With a few illustrations on the title page. The basis for the epynomous film. Sachar's tale concerns a miscarriage of justice and one boy's navigation of the juvenile detention system. Camp Green Lake, where the protagonist is being held, is a juvenile facility in the scorching American desert and is haunted by what's buried beneath its sand. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #000011933
Minor wear to the extremities, otherwise a pleasing copy.
Price: $300.00