HILL BILLY [Presentation Copy]

Wilder Lane, Rose

Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1926

About this Item

Octavo, 286 pages. In Very Good Minus condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Age-toned spine with landscape painting, sky blue, light evergreen, and wheat-yellow with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in mylar covering, has mild age-toning, has mild chipping along head and tail edges, a small tear along the front cover extending down to the title, a dent along front cover head corner, a small tear near joint on rear cover, has a large chip along spine tail, and a small chip along spine head. Price unclipped: "$2.00". Boards have light staining along front and rear boards, a small dent along front board head corner, mild wear along spine head and tail, and minor cocking to spine. Text block has mild age-toning, a mild dent along head edges of pages 91-96, and page 285 - outstanding novels page, mild wear along fore and tail edges, and mild foxing along tail edge. A lengthy ink presentation inscription from Rose Wilder Lane to Clarence Day, dated 1926, appears on the front free end page. Shelved upstairs in Room G. Rose Wilder Lane, daughter and first child of Laura Ingalls Wilder (author of the Little House series), is most famous as one of the "Founding Mothers" of the American Libertarian movement, alongside Ayn Rand and Isabel Patterson, each of whom released texts foundational to the movement in 1943. Lane is also credited with aiding in her mothers writing, her final manuscript "Four Years Later" being posthumously made into the ninth volume in the Little House series. Clarence Day is most well known for his work as a columnist and cartoonist for the New Yorker and for his famous work Life with Father. He is also notable for his advocacy for women's right to vote and for the quote "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead." 1379423. Special Collections.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: HILL BILLY [Presentation Copy]
• Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
• Publication Date: 1926
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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