THE SMALL RAIN
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Blue cloth over boards, with silver stencil-style lettering to spine. Shelfwear and sunning. $2.50 price to flap. Partial dustjacket. (Large chip -- up to 2 1/4 in. missing from top of front panel, wrapping around to spine. Additional small chip laid in. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown depiects classic figure with folded arms,holding large tome to chest. (Rockwell Kent?). Good in torn and partial Jacket. Item #85325
L'Engle's first book about a young girl separated from her concert pianist mother by a tragic accident, and her own
blossoming and maturing into her understanding of her relationships to people and place, "with the one consistent and dominant force in her life: music...[a] journey from a distraught girl to an exhuberant and talented woman with the breadth and poignancy that defines Madeleine L'Engle's signature style..." (M.L'E. site).
Price: $275.00