Walker Nedda Illustrator (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. wrinkled and price clipped dustjacket in mylar; usual library markings.

g+/no dj, cover fade/bumped/prev church stamp on endpaper. some browning on 2 pages from newsclip, otherwise text clean, good tight book. Illustrated by full page color & b/w. 2nd printing edition. Binding is blue cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. book has slight bumping to ends of spine and corners, slight toning to cover, light foxing to back endpaper, otherwise in bright sharp shape.

Condition: GOOD. First printing. A rather hard-to-find biography of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne written for older children and young adults. It follows her life from an exciting childhood in Europe, and in New England, where her father moved in literary and diplomatic circles, through her marriage to George Lathrop through an unstable marriage and tragedy in the loss of their son, and the emotional turmoil involved before her conversion to Catholicism and finally, after taking religious orders, Rose, now Mother Alfonsa, achieved her goal in the founding of the Rosary Hill Home for the poor with incurable cancer in New York's lower East Side. A vivid portrait of the period known as "flowering of New England" with the Alcotts, Margaret Sydney, Emma Lazarus and others. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and black and white plates by Nedda Walker. 160 pp Ex-library with relatively few markings, overall tight and clean in a very good dj. (spine label).

Condition: Good. Wonder Books New York 1946 8vo. unpaginated. boards lightly rubbed and soiled. pages lightly creased and handsoiled. G+.