First printing of this Newbery Medal-winning novel, warmly inscribed to fellow author Barbara Elleman.
Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Price: $350.00
"I was the elder by a few minutes. I always treasured the thought of those minutes. They represented the only time in my life when I was the center of everyone's attention."
A story of sibling rivalry and self-fulfillment, JACOB I HAVE LOVED earned Katherine Paterson her second Newbery Medal. This attractive copy is warmly inscribed by Paterson to Barbara Elleman, fellow author and Distinguished Scholar of Children's Literature at Marquette University, in the year of Paterson's Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1980). 8'' x 5.25''. Original red cloth backed boards. Original unclipped ($8.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Dark blue endpapers. 216 pages. Inscribed by Paterson to title page, "To barbara Elleman – it was / wonderful to be with you at / Marquette – / With love – / Katherine Paterson / 10/16/98." Promotional card of books by Paterson loosely laid in. Jacket with light edgewear, a couple tiny closed tears; tiny scuff to front. Binding spine ends with a hint of bumping. Clean and bright.
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