Lady of the Silver Skates
Clingstone, 1979. first edition, association copy. hardcover. 8vo 251pp. Biography and collection of letters of Mary Mapes Dodge, who wrote childrens books, known especially for Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, and for being the long time editor and contributor to St Nicholas Magazine for 30 years, publishing children's stories written by Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Bret Harte, John Hay, Charles Dudley Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and others.
Gift inscription from subject's granddaughter: "To B[-] and Dick Ste[]us from Josephine Dodge Wilkinson grand daughter of Mary Mapes Dodge". near fine: mildest sign of shelfwear, else clean, square, tight. / very good: edge wear/rubbing, NOT clipped. Item #721
#00804.
Price: $30.00