The Education of Little Tree

Carter, Forrest (Asa Earl)

ISBN 10: 044002319X / ISBN 13: 9780440023197

Published by Delacorte Press, New York, 1976

About this Item

Offered as a memoir of Little Tree, an orphan raised by his Cherokee grandparents in their Tennesseee log cabin. Later to be revealed as fiction, the author was not Cherokee but segregationist and former Ku Klux Klan organizer Asa Earl Carter. First printing. Bumped with a touch of wear at the edges, drip mark to the upper edge of the text block. Pages tanned, binding square and solid, previous owner's gift inscription inside. Jacket lightly rubbed and crimped with two short tears to the upper edge. Lower corner of the rear flap creased, in Brodart.

Seller Inventory # 231267

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Education of Little Tree
• Publisher: Delacorte Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 044002319X
• ISBN 13: 9780440023197
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

The super-seller memoir of a Cherokee boyhood in the 1930s. The most sensitive and evocative autobiographical account ever of the Cherokee way, as seen through the eyes of a young boy in the Appalachian Mountains.

From the Inside Flap

The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression.