LENSKI, Lois

Mama Hattie's Girl

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1953. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Light green cloth stamped in red, in lavender pictorial dust jacket; black and white pictorial endpapers; [x],182pp; black and white illustrations throughout. A straight, stable copy, light fading to spine, pushed at head and tail, else Very Good or better. Jacket price-clipped, rubbed, chipped with large loss at head of spine, and toned along upper edge and spine: Good or better.

The story of a young Black girl who moves from the South to New Jersey with her mother, while her grandmother remains in the South. Lenski, a white author, wrote a series of books to introduce children to different regions of the United States, often focusing on impoverished or marginalized families. She won the Newbery Medal for Strawberry Girl (1945). [62267].

Price: $250.00

Go Back