THE SHAKESPEARE STEALER SERIES; The Shakespeare Stealer - Shakespeare's Scribe - Shakespeare's Spy
New York, N.Y. Dutton Children's Books, 2003. Omnibus First Edition, Eleventh - Fifth - & First Printings. Cloth. Thick 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) ; Author's Note vol. 2 Shakespeare's Scribe & end of S's Spy; 216 + vi, 265 + 281 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 3 oz. Very Fine / Fine. Item #8588
ISBN: 0525473203
Gary Blackwood (born 1945) is an American author who writes chidlren's - historical - and science fiction, who is perhaps best known for The Shakespeare Stealer trilogy.
The Shakespeare Stealer is a 1998 historical fiction novel by Gary Blackwood. Taking place in the Elizabethan-era England, it recounts the story of Widge, an orphan whose master sends him to steal Hamlet from The Lord Chamberlain's Men. It was an ALA Notable Children's Book in 1999. The author Blackwood published two sequels, Shakespeare's Scribe (2000), and Shakespeare's Spy (2003).
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