SEASONED TIMBER.
by Canfield, Dorothy [Fisher] (1879-1958)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good in oatmeal colored linen cloth with a tan paper spine label in a fair only slipcase (usual toning to the pages and sp
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About This Item
New York:: Harcourt Brace & Company,, 1939.. Hardcover -. Very good in oatmeal colored linen cloth with a tan paper spine label in a fair only slipcase (usual toning to the pages and spine of book, slipcase is separated into 2 pieces, could be reglued). . Hardcover in slipcase. The last novel by this educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author, one who strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education and who was named by Eleanor Roosevelt as one of the ten most influential women in the United States. This is the story of a Vermont school in desperate need of funds, but when they receive a bequest, the codicils are troubling - and so the school and the town become engaged in a "struggle between the 'old' virtues of tolerance, integrity, and civic responsibility and '"modern' attitudes of expediency, exclusionism, and outside control." A book which has been described as "remarkably prescient in its defense of human rights and the ramifications of their denial." Color frontispiece by Paul Honore. On reading this book, Willa Cather sent the following note to Fishter "I read Seasoned Wood up on the Island this summer, and I was more than glad to have a thoughtful book in a place where I had time to think. I particularly enjoyed Aunt Lavinia, and Miss Peck! You will laugh at me, but I to me it is thrilling to see a person some so completely brought across with so little introduction. I say person, not not a character. She set me thinking how different persons and characters are. She isn't made or fashioned at allÑshe simply is. And how strongly one feels her! Her actual presence, I mean. And I love her laconic inscriptions." 485 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88949
- Title
- SEASONED TIMBER.
- Author
- Canfield, Dorothy [Fisher] (1879-1958)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in oatmeal colored linen cloth with a tan paper spine label in a fair only slipcase (usual toning to the pages and sp
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1939.
- Keywords
- vermont, slipcase,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women Authors;
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