Signed first printing of this seventh installment in Cleary's classic Ramona series.
Fine in a fine jacket.
Price: $1,000.00
"'We can't always do what we want in life,' answered her father, 'so we do the best we can.'"
Ramona Quimby first appeared as a minor side character in Clearly's HENRY HUGGINS (1950), eventually growing into a protagonist capable of sustaining her own decades-spanning series. FOREVER follows Ramona through third grade and introduces a pregnancy (her mother's), a wedding (her aunt's), and a death (her cat's). Published the same year as DEAR MR. HENSHAW, which won Cleary the Newbery Medal, it helped cement Cleary's reputation as a giant of children's literature. As Anna Katz has written: "The Ramona Quimby series has maintained its relevance and relatability for sixty-five years and counting because Ramona and Beezus ride childhood's roller coaster of feelings with such humor and honesty" (11).
Read more: Katz, The Art of Ramona Quimby.
First edition. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984. 8'' x 5.5''. Original quarter yellow cloth over orange pictorial boards. In original unclipped ($9.25) color pictorial jacket. [8], 182, [2] pages. Signed on the half title page by Cleary. Trace shelfwear. Bright, sharp, and tight overall.
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