All Things New [*SIGNED*]

[light staining to edges of text block, otherwise a good sound copy with only modest shelfwear; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, lightly browned at the spine, with tiny bits of paper loss at most corners and the spine ends]. (pen & ink chapter-head drawings) INSCRIBED ("Irma -- a charming / hostess and a kind friend") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. The story of a Russian girl whose family flees the Russian revolution and comes to New York. "The tale of sixteen-year-old Masha's adjustment to America, her battle to become an artist and her gradual realization of herself as a person, is one of the most vivid and unusual books for older girls that we have read," sez the jacket blurb. Two earlier books, "Mashinka's Secret" (1932) and "The Broken Song" (1934), chronicled the experiences of Masha and her family in Russia during the period immediately preceding the Revolution; the present volume is the scarcest of the three. The author's husband, a noted artist in his own right, often illustrated her books. While it may not surprise you (as it didn't surprise me) to learn that Mrs. Daugherty was of Russian origin herself (maiden name, Sonia Medvedeva), the fact that she and James were married in 1913 would seem to rule out the idea that these books are primarily autobiographical, at least as far as the "fleeing the Revolution" parts are concerned. Signed by Author

Product Info

Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons

Year: 1936

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Signed

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