Description
The Very Good dust jacket is tan with flower petal illustration on front and photo of author on back panel. Wear along top edges and small tears on spine ends. The Very Good+ binding is white cloth over boards, blue cloth-backed. Fading to spine and soil spot at bottom, gilt lettering. Name dated 1962 on the page after the free endpaper. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.6″ tall x 5.5″ wide.
Stated “First Edition”
About the book (from the dust jacket)
A June wedding, with aura of blooms on everything, sets the scene for Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s new book: Sally is marrying Mark “in the sight of God and the face of this company.” This ceremony is one of the great moments a peak, from which the onlookers survey not just this couple, this occasion, but their own lives and hopes and fears. As the family and the wedding guests follow the familiar stepping-stones of the marriage service, they are stirred to new insights- on love, on marriage, in all the stages of their development. There are the young and eager: Chrissie, the bridesmaid, André, the best man. For them, marriage still lies ahead, a hope and a promise. For the older ones, for Deborah, the bride’s mother, for Frances, mother of the groom, for friends and relatives, the sight of the young couple, the words of the minister, evoke more troubling thoughts and deeper questionings
Anne Morrow Lindbergh has chosen the framework of a wedding wisely: it gives her scope for her reflections and intuitions about the most crucial of human relationships, which she treats as a theme with variations. This is a courageous book that works out its own solutions, not with easy optimism, but according to the truths as they appear to a very perceptive, compassionate, and candid woman with the gift to formulate and say out loud what in most people remains dimly felt and unspoken. Men will read this luminous book to learn about women; women will read it to discover and come to terms with themselves.
About the author (from the dust jacket)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and educated at day-schools in her home town and in New York City. She attended Smith College, where her mother, a staunch upholder of women’s education was later acting president. She graduated in 1928, after specializing in English literature and creative writing. She had met her graduated in 1928, after specializing in English. She had met her future husband, Charles A. Lindbergh, during was then on his pioneering flight to Mexico, Christmas vacation of the previous year. He where her father, Dwight W. Morrow, was ambassador.
She was married in 1929, and immediately entered the active world of her husband, learning to fly, navigate, and operate radio. She accompanied him on his 1931 and 1933 survey flights over air routes from North America to Asia and to Europe. Her experiences on these flights resulted in the writing of her first books, North to the Orient and Listen! the Wind. Her third book about flying, The Steep Ascent, was a fictional account of an incident which occurred over the Alps on a trip to India in 1937.
In Mrs. Lindbergh’s life, writing has always alternated with action, not only on flying trips but raising a family of five children and setting up homes in various parts of the world, on the Atlantic coast, in the Middle West, in England France, and Switzerland. Since 1944, her permanent home has been in Connecticut. The delicate balance between er life as wife and mother, and her life as an individual, led Anne Lindbergh to explore the human realm of conflicting values in her book of reflections on women’s lives, Gift from the Sea. She now continues this line of thought in a different form in her present novel, which she herself prefers to call reflections in a fictional frame.
