The Twenty-One Balloons

Notes

1st ed.
Price from 1947-04-20 newspapers (earliest items found): • listing in "Books Received", NY Herald Tribune pE28 • advertisement "Viking Junior Books", NY Times pBR24
Cover Front jacket (displayed here) is identical to that of the UK ed., from dealer images at ABEbooks. Several dealers provide images of the front book cover, "Red cloth spine with basket weave patterned paper covered boards." The quoted dealer also shows the spine, frontispiece and title leaf (bi=22458866506). -- title page: "Mcmxlvii" -- copyright page (quote 3 lines, small caps): First published by the Viking Press in April 1947 Published on the same day in the Dominion of Canada By the Macmillan Company of Canada Limited
Only two ABEbooks dealers report page-count today, both 180.

Wikipedia

Year	Award	Category	Status
1948	John Newbery Medal	Newbery Medal	Winner

Title	Year	Publisher	Format	Type	Catalog ID	Cover Artist	Pages
The Twenty-One Balloons	1949	Robert Hale	Hardcover	Novel			179
The Twenty-One Balloons	1969	Dell Yearling	Trade Paperback	Novel	9183	William Pène du Bois	180
The Twenty-One Balloons	1972	World's Work	Hardcover	Novel			180
The Twenty-One Balloons	1975	Dell Yearling	Trade Paperback	Novel	440-09183	William Pène du Bois	180
The Twenty-One Balloons	1986	Puffin	Trade Paperback	Novel			192
The Twenty-One Balloons	1997	Recorded Books	audio cassette	Novel		Brad Weinman
The Twenty-One Balloons	2005	Puffin / Penguin Books (US)	Trade Paperback	Novel		Jeanine Henderson	180
The Twenty-One Balloons	2007	Fitzgerald Books	Hardcover	Novel			180
The Twenty-One Balloons	2007	Paw Prints	Hardcover	Novel		Brad Weinman
The Twenty-One Balloons	2008	Paw Prints	Hardcover	Novel			180