Bright Island SIGNED in Dust Jacket 1937 by Mabel Robinson illustrated by Lynd Ward - Newbery Honor - Maine Coast - Novel

Title: Bright Island

Author: Mabel L. Robinson
Illustrator: Lynd Ward

Description: Inscribed by Robinson on the half-title page. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and black illustration on front board. Dark-blue top stain. Spine cocked; heavy fading along top and fore-edge of boards. Illustrated endpapers. Book is unmarked, but a few pages show minor spots of soiling. Dust jacket is worn; residue of tape repairs on reverse side; not price clipped ($2.00). DJ in archival sleeve. 268 pp. 8.25 x 5.75 inches. 1938 Newbery Honor book.

Inscribed "For Helen Jeffrey as a slight return / for the pleasure that her music / gave me. / Mabel L. Robinson". Helen Jeffrey (1891-1937) had been a highly regarded concert violinist, who had performed multiple times at both Carnegie Hall and Aeolian Hall, and with various symphony orchestras.

Bright Island tells the story of Thankful Curtis, a girl who having grown up on a small island off the coast of Maine, reluctantly agrees leave the island, and her sailboat, to attend school on the mainland for her senior year. She finds the uncharted waters of the sophisticated school difficult to navigate.

Mabel Louise Robinson (1874-1962) was an American writer of children's books. Lynd Ward (1905-1985) was an America illustrator and author, known for his wordless novels composed of wood engravings.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Good

Publisher: Random House
Place: [New York]
Year: 1937

Language: English

ISBN: n/a

Keywords: Lynd Ward, Helen Jeffrey, Newbery Honor, fiction, novel, Maine, YA, young adult, juvenile,