BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: WOOD ENGRAVINGS By ALLEN LEWIS. Book is without other marks or writings, pages are clean and book is tight and sturdy. The name 'Boone' is written on the front inside pastedown near the upper edge the second front free endpaper has a large dedication that covers the entire page including line in black marker from 1931. There is some age like foxing spots to the first opening pages and a few other pages throughout the book. The outside is in good condition the spine has a slight tan or darkened look from use.

CONDITION: The book is without a dust jacket.

TITLE: CALICO BUSH By RACHEL FIELD 1931 Engravings on wood by ALLEN LEWIS AUTHOR: RACHEL FIELD PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, NY 1931 Published September, 1931 EDITION: First Edition CATEGORY: Famous Illustrators, Rare, Literature BINDING/COVER: Hardback without dust jacket COLOR: BEIGE SIZE: 7 x 9 (approximately) PAGES: 213 pages. She died at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, California on Maof pneumonia following an operation.Hardcover. Pederson in 1935, with whom she collaborated in 1937 on To See Ourselves.įield was a descendant of David Dudley Field. Field also wrote the English lyrics for the version of Franz Schubert's Ave Maria used in the Disney film Fantasia.

She is also famous for her poem-turned-song 'Something Told the Wild Geese'. Calico Bush still stands out as a near-perfect re-creation of people and place in a story of courage, understated and beautiful.' Field was also a successful author of adult fiction, writing the bestsellers Time Out of Mind (1935), All This and Heaven Too (1938), and And Now Tomorrow (1942). According to Ruth Hill Vigeurs in her introduction to Calico Bush, book of Rachel Field for children, published in 1931, Rachel Field was 'fifteen when she first visited Maine and fell under the spell of its 'island-scattered coast'. Her book, Prayer for a Child, was a recipient of the Caldecott Medal for its illustrations by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Nicholas Magazine and was educated at Radcliffe College. She is best known for her Newbery Medal–winning novel for young adults, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, published in 1929.Īs a child Field contributed to the St. Rachel Lyman Field was an American novelist, poet, and author of children's fiction.

Calico Bush by Rachel Field