Miss Hickory.

BAILEY, Carolyn Sherwin.

$200.00

Item Number: 145270

New York: The Junior Literary Guild and The Viking Press, 1946.

Scarce first Junior Guild edition of this Newbery award-winning children’s book. Octavo, original red cloth with black lettering to the spine and black flower decoration to the front panel, pictorial endpapers, red top stain, lithographs by Ruth Gannett. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Helen Fuller, my treasured friend, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey and Miss H.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket and signed.

'Miss Hickory' is the delightful story of a small country woman with the body of an apple-wood twig and the head of a hickory nut who survives a harsh winter with friends Crow, Bull Frog, Ground Hog, and others. This particular edition is a Junior Literary Guild selection, having been chosen by the Editorial Board as an outstanding publication for children.