Vintage Children's: Sugar & Spice- ABC of Being a Girl in Dust Jacket 1960 Phyllis McGinley illustrated by Colleen Browning Rhyming Poems

Title: Sugar and Spice: The ABC of Being a Girl

Author: Phyllis McGinley
Illustrator: Colleen Browning

Description: Maroon cloth boards with black lettering. Spine cocked; light blemishes on boards. Illustrated endpapers. Gift inscription on front paste-down, else pages are clean. Dust jacket has small chip to bottom edge of front panel; chip at bottom rear fore-corner; not price clipped ($2.95). DJ in clear archival sleeve. 34 unnumbered pages. 10.25 x 7.5 inches.

Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978) was an American author of children's books and the 1961 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Colleen Browning (1918-2003) was born in England and studied at London's Slade School of Art. She immigrated to the United States in 1948 and became a pivotal figure in New York City's realism movement and later developed her work in the style of magic realism. She taught at the Pratt Institute and the National Academy of Design and her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and National Museum of Women in the Arts, among others.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Franklin Watts
Place: New York
Year: 1960

Language: English

ISBN: n/a

Keywords: children's, illustrated, picture book,