Up the Hill

Garden City, New York: Junior Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1942. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Marguerite De ANGELI. [WOMAN AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR]. Later printing. 8vo square; 88pp; pale green cloth over board, green-stamped vining design with birds on front; color pictorial endpapers; ownership in childish pencil on verso ffep; color portrait of a girl on title page; pronunciation page before first chapter; 9 color and 11 black and white full-page illustrations, other illustrations in text; one page upper edge creased; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, price of $2.00 on front flap, chipping at edges and spine, lightly age-toned, old tape repairs on verso; near fine in very good minus dj. Marguerite De Angeli (1889-1987) was an American writer and illustrator who worked in the midst of raising five children and without a quiet studio. She asserted that her art came from the busyness of family life, and her mother's encouragement that she and her siblings could be whatever they wanted to be. Mahony, Folmsbee & Latimer 298.

The story of a Polish brother and sister growing up in a rural Pennsylvania mining town and the boy's wish to paint.