Jonah and the Great Fish
New York: Atheneum, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1983, hardcover, small quarto, unpaginated, heavily illustrated in color. Book fine, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ near fine with spot of edge wear. Obtained from the McElderry estate. 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. With related papers laid in. Fine / near fine. Item #C00006998
ISBN: 0689502834
Price: $27.00