CURTIS, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy. [NY]: Delacorte [1999]. 8vo, x 245pp. Blue boards pictorially stamped in blind and navy spine stamped in bronze. A fine
copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Signed and dated January 19, 2000 by the author, Christopher Paul Curtis.

First edition. 2000 Newberry Medal Winner. Its 1936, in Flint, Michigan, and 10-year-old Bud, not Buddy, Caldwell decides to strike out on his own and find the man he suspects is the father he's never known.