America Was Beautiful
Barre, MA: Barre Publishers, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the editor, Alice Watson, and the designer, James Houston, to publisher Margaret McElderry on the half-title. 1969, First Edition, 116 pp. Hardcover, oblong 4to. Illustrated. Very Good copy in a Good+ dust jacket. Foxing to text-blocks; light wear along the top edge; clean contents. The DJ shows soil and edgewear; chipping to head of spine; blank side of DJ is stained. Originally from Ben Avon [near Pittsburgh, PA], Margaret McElderry (1912-2011) attended the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh School before moving to New York in the 1930s to work for the New York Public Library in the Children’s Division under Anne Carroll Moore. After World War II, she became an editor of children’s books at Harcourt Brace, eventually establishing her own imprint at Simon and Schuster. Miss McElderry was the first children's editor whose books won both the prestigious Newbery and Caldecott medals in the same year (1952). She was married to Storer Lunt (d. 1977), long-time publisher and eventual president of W.W. Norton. Very Good / Good. Item #0070268
ISBN: 9780827169234
Price: $48.00