Adam of the Road
New York: Viking Press, 1942.
Price: $200.00
Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. Small, neat owner's name on the front fly, and the boards a trifle soiled, else near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears at the spinal extremities and with a little general soiling. A nice, presentable copy of a wartime title, winner of the Newbery Award.
Item #5108
Elizabeth Janet Gray
birth name: Elizabeth Janet Gray Vining
born: 10/6/1902
died: 11/27/1999
Biography
Children's book author who won a Newbery Medal for her 1943 book Adam of the Road. She was also librarian and teacher, most famously as the private tutor of Japan's Emperor Akihoto when he was young.more