Light Year '86
Cleveland, OH: Bits Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. c.1985. Hardcover. Light blue cloth. 8vo. 279pp. Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket. Light wear to dustjacket, mild tanning. Contents unmarked. With note taped in from X. J. Kennedy to Margaret McElderry: "Dear Margaret - Here's, just for fun and to show you what it looks like, the latest of this series of light verse annuals. A labor of love by Prof. Wallace, with a very small distribution. Josh's "Brat" is in here, and some of mine." 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. Fine / very good +. Item #C00008796
ISBN: 9780933248045
Price: $19.20