Endless Steppe Growing Siberia by Hautzig Esther, First Edition (2 results)

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Nonny Hogrogian (jacket and book design) (illustrator). First US Edition. 8vo. Pp. 243, [2]. Dark red cloth, titles stamped in silver on the cover and spine. Author inscribed in ink on the front endpaper "For Barbara Bader whose first review meant so much - with best wishes, Esther Hautzig, March 12, 1969." Light damp stain to spine tail, head edge lightly dust-soiled. In the color illustrated dust jacket with price $4.50 intact on the front flap, embossed award medallion "Childrens Spring Festival Book World 1968 Honor Book" on the cover: spine ends and corners chipped, back panel chips and perforations. The story of a Polish family's arrest in Vilnius and exile to slave labor in Siberia until the end of WWII, and return to a very different Vilnius. Hautzig also wrote several books on practical life for adolescents. From the personal collection of Barbara Bader, critic, publisher of Kirkus Reviews and author of American Picturebooks from Noah's Art to The Beast Within (Macmillan, 1976), Dust jacket preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Beautifull written sorrowful and inspiring. clean unmarked bright copy!The book was nominated for many awards. Excl red cloth with silver title DJ not price clipped $4.95 1" open tear at the head of the spine along the seamDuring World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. About the Author: Esther Hautzig is the author of many books for children and adults. The Endless Steppe is an autobiographical account of her childhood in Siberia. It was a 1969 National Book Award nominee and an ALA Notable Children's Book of 1968. It also received the 1969 Jane Addams Children's Book Award and the 1971 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. Mrs. Hautzig is also the author of Riches, an original Jewish folktale, which was a finalist for the 1993 Jewish Book Award. She lives in New York City.