From Douglas Park Media, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since July 17, 2019
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MacMillan, New York, 1943. 6.5 x 8.5 in. First. Red cloth boards. Pictorial endpapers. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, front board fore-corner bumped and the cloth is lightly puckered above the bump, appears to have been dropped. Rear pictorial end papers shows two defects at gutter, a quarter inch tear and a separate eighth inch apparent insect bore. Binding square and tight, text block and illustrations mainly clean with occasional foxing. Unmarked, no indicia of ownership. Edges slightly soiled. Dust jacket is fair. Clipped at top but original $2.00 price still shows at base. Jacket is now protected in mylar. Scarce title. The book is in twelve chapters, one for each month. Each chapter s accompanied by a full page illustration in bright red by Marguerite Davis, a smattering of smaller illustrations within the text. Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1893 1986) was an American writer of fiction and poetry for children and adults. She won the 1931 Newbery Medal from the ALA recognizing The Cat Who Went to Heaven as the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children, among other awards. Born in Buffalo, she attended Buffalo Seminary and spent summers with her family on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie. She began traveling as a child, visiting the Alps and Egypt at age five. Coatsworth graduated from Vassar College in 1915 as Salutatorian. In 1916 she received a Master of Arts from Columbia. She then traveled in Asia. Her travels influenced her writing. In 1929, she married writer Henry Beston, lived in Hingham Mass and eventually settled in Nobleboro, Maine. One of her daughters, Kate Barnes (1932 2013), would be named the first Poet Laureate of Maine. The Illustrator, Marguerite Davis (1889 1980), was also a Vassarian, and attended the MFA School in Boston. In addition to this work, Davis is renowned for the 1927 English translation of Johanna Spyri's Heidi and many other books in 25-year career, including Christina Rossetti's Sing-Song (1924), Robert Louis Stevenen s A Child's Garden of Verses (1924), Alcott s Under the Lilacs (1928), Laura E. Richards' Tirra Lirra (1932), and Coatsworth's The Littlest House (1940).
 Seller Inventory # JG2408-06-BX-6-ME/NE
Bibliographic Details
Title: Twelve Months A Year
Publisher: MacMillan
Publication Date: 1943
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
Edition: 1st Edition
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