A Wrinkle in Time.

Published by [New York:] Ariel Books; Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962

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First edition of the author's beloved and frequently banned science-fantasy classic. A Wrinkle in Time won the Sequoyah Book Award, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and the most coveted children's literature award: the Newbery Medal. The jacket is in the first state, without the Newbery Medal sticker that was affixed to later copies. The book was rejected by 26 publishers until John Farrar decided it was worth a chance. Because of its themes of magic and witchcraft, A Wrinkle in Time has been accused of being anti-Christian and is on the American Library Association's list of frequently challenged books. In her acceptance speech for the Newbery Medal, L'Engle remarked that "a book, too, can be a star, 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly', a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." Madeleine L'Engle, "Newbery Award Acceptance Speech: The Expanding Universe", August 1963, available online. Octavo. Original blue quarter cloth, grey patterned paper boards, spine lettered in gilt and yellow, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Housed in a greenish-blue flat-back cloth box by the Chelsea Bindery. Spine slightly sunned and bumped, boards faintly toned, small marks to a few margins; jacket unclipped, faintly toned, a few short closed tears at edges, tiny hole to rear flap fold: a very good copy in like jacket.

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Title
A Wrinkle in Time.
Author
L'ENGLE, Madeleine.
Publisher
[New York:] Ariel Books; Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962
Edition
1st Edition

Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.

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