47 / by Walter Mosley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mosley, Walter.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Fiction.

African Americans--Fiction.

Plantation life--Fiction.

Freedom--Fiction.

Magic--Fiction.

History.

Liberty.

Plantation life.

Georgia--History--1775-1865--Fiction.

Slavery--Juvenile fiction.

Slavery.

African Americans--Juvenile fiction.

African Americans.

Plantation life--Juvenile fiction.

Liberty--Juvenile fiction.

Magic--Juvenile fiction.

Magic.

Georgia--History--1775-1865--Juvenile fiction.

Georgia.

Genre:

Science fiction.

Children's stories.

Fiction.

History.

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 232 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Forty-seven

Place of Publication:

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2005.

Summary:

Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.

Notes:

Jacket design by Billy Kelly.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjacket retained.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has small book review laid in.

ISBN:

0316110353

9780316110358

OCLC:

55847254

Online:

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