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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Original gouache and pencil cover art for *Dinny Gordon Junior* by illustrator Evelyn Copeman depicting the winning teen ingénue smiling up at an all-American boy. The image measures approximately 7" x 8½" (on 13" x 20" artist board). It is accompanied by a clear overlay with the title and author's name affixed, a sheet of tissue paper with various notes for the printer, and additional blank sheet with a warning about handling the original art, once attached to the board by tape but now loose. The art is fine and bright; the other items showing some toning from the tape, along with a few spots and a couple of tears. It is accompanied by a fine third printing of the book in an else fine price-clipped dust jacket. In the article "Dinny Gordon: Proto-Feminist," that appeared in the March 2006 issue of *The Journal of American Culture*, writer Joyce Litton posits that Anne Emery's most beloved character, Dinny Gordon, who had aspirations of a nontraditional career and delayed marriage, was a transitional character between the portrayal of the 1950s female in family life and the more enlightened feminist of the mid-to-late 1960s. While it's a little hard to tell from the jacket art, this volume has Dinny confronting not only the typical teen problems such as liking two different boys and losing her job as a result of a shoplifting incident, but also confronting the prejudice of her friends when a Jewish family moves into her neighborhood. Take that, Gidget.…