Signed first edition of this Newbery Award winner about a doll made from an apple twig and a hickory nut.
Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
Price: $150.00
"Snow a foot deep still whitened the top of Temple Mountain, but at the foot a rose-pink haze lay in lovely color. That was the budding of the red maple trees. In the lee of the mountain there hung a golden curtain, as pale yellow as a new moon. That was the flowering of the willows."
First printing. New York: The Viking Press, 1946. 8.5'' x 6''. Original full beige cloth with orange titles. In original unclipped ($2.50) color pictorial jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. 224, [4] pages. Signed on the half title page by Bailey. Spine lightly sunned. Mild edgewear, toning to jacket. Owner name neatly penned to top of front flap. Contemporary bookplate to front pastedown. Else clean and sound.
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