Journey Inward (association copy)
by George, Jean Craighead (signed); Myra Cohn Livingston (inscribed to)
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0525241086
- ISBN 13
- 9780525241089
- Seller
-
La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NY: Dutton, 1982. Near fine/Very good. An association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "To Myra Cohn Livingston, what a pleasure to write that name in this book. Jean Craighead George, May 7, 1983." Laid in is a Ex Libris bookplate from Livingston that was once affixed to front pastedown.
Jean Craighead George was a prolific children's book author, most of her book's about animal life. She's best known for the Newberry Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and for the classic My Side of the Mountain about a boy who ditches NYC for the Catskills wilderness. Her influence on the America's youth appreciation of the natural world was and is substantial. In this memoir, she recounts her growth as a woman and a writer and throughout writes about her encounters with animals, near at home and in wilderness settings (e.g. wolves in Alaska), and how those experiences pored into her books.
Myra Cohn Livingston was an equally prolific poet for children, some of her work also about the natural world and animals, and she also wrote guides to writing for children. A nice association between children's authors.
A fine book except for the remaining bookplate strip on the front pastedown. In a very good jacket with sunning to spine, otherwise fine.
Jean Craighead George was a prolific children's book author, most of her book's about animal life. She's best known for the Newberry Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and for the classic My Side of the Mountain about a boy who ditches NYC for the Catskills wilderness. Her influence on the America's youth appreciation of the natural world was and is substantial. In this memoir, she recounts her growth as a woman and a writer and throughout writes about her encounters with animals, near at home and in wilderness settings (e.g. wolves in Alaska), and how those experiences pored into her books.
Myra Cohn Livingston was an equally prolific poet for children, some of her work also about the natural world and animals, and she also wrote guides to writing for children. A nice association between children's authors.
A fine book except for the remaining bookplate strip on the front pastedown. In a very good jacket with sunning to spine, otherwise fine.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1044
- Title
- Journey Inward (association copy)
- Author
- George, Jean Craighead (signed); Myra Cohn Livingston (inscribed to)
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0525241086
- ISBN 13
- 9780525241089
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1982
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Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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