A GIRL FROM YAMHILL [with] MY OWN TWO FEET: A Memoir

The Origins Of Ramona

A GIRL FROM YAMHILL [with] MY OWN TWO FEET: A Memoir

By Beverly Cleary

(1988) / (1995)

Inscribed first printings of Cleary's two memoirs: the first of her childhood and the second of her young adulthood leading up to the publication of her first book, HENRY HUGGINS.

Very good plus in very good plus jackets.

Price: $500.00

A GIRL FROM YAMHILL [with] MY OWN TWO FEET: A Memoir

"My reading, secluded in my room with the door shut, annoyed Mother. She constantly talked to me through the door and accused me of being snooty. I was not snooty. I was confused and unhappy, and wanted time to think without Mother telling me what to think."

Reviewing the first of Cleary's memoirs on the occasion of the author's one-hundred-and-third birthday, writer Sarah Jaffe recalled: "While many novelists reimagine their own history to heighten the emotion or exaggerate the events, the Ramona books soften the hard edges of Cleary's real childhood [...] I read the whole memoir in one sitting, on a rainy afternoon, and felt the electrifying feeling that I was reading something very different — darker, more adult — than what I had read in the Ramona books." MY OWN TWO FEET was among the last books Cleary published during her life; both are scarce signed.

Read more: Jaffe, "The Real Ramona," slate.com.

The Object

First editions. New York: William Morrow and Company / Morrow Junior Books, (1988) / (1995). Two volumes; 8'' x 5.5'' both. Original quarter cloth over boards, both. In original unclipped ($14.95 and $15.00) color photographic jackets. [6], 280, [2] and [8], 262 pages. YAMHILL inscribed by Cleary on the front free endpaper: "With the author's / Best wishes, / Beverly Cleary." TWO FEET also inscribed by Cleary on the front free endpaper "To Bonnie / Thank you for making / the interview painless! / Beverly Cleary." Minor shelf and edgewear to books. Touches of soil and rubbing here and there. Overall, sound and bright.

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