Sarah Faith Anderson: Her Book

Sarah Faith Anderson: Her Book

Elvira Garner

New York: Julian Messner, Inc.

1939

1st edition

This book is inscribed by Elvira Garner.
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This book has a tan dust jacket upon which a girl in a large hoop skirts stands next to a fountain in the yard of a two-story plantation home with palm trees. Because the illustration is a wrap-around, on the back is a nature scene with several Indians, presumably Seminoles, on the edge of a woody area. The lettering for the title on the front cover looks like cross-stitch while the information about the author/illustrator at the bottom is in regular type. The regular type is repeated for the title, author, and publisher information on the spine. The flaps include a blurb on the front with an illustration of another little girl underneath more cross-stitch like type. The back flap includes a short blurb about the author with photograph and an advertisement for a book by another author. The dust jacket has not been price clipped and originally cost $2.00.
The tan cloth of the book is embossed calico-textured covers with a thread and needle, and thimble stamped in red or blue on the front cover. Near the top in red and blue is the title which imitates the dust jacket title by being printed to look like cross-stitch. The title, author, and publisher on the spine is colored in red or blue again, but like on the dust jacket is in plain type.
The endpapers are made of the same wood pulp paper as the rest of the textblock; however, on the front loose endpaper the author has inscribed the book to someone who must have lived in Jacksonville because the inscription starts with the name of that city.
Garner was a watercolorist, but her illustrations were reproduced using relief lithography. Each page has at least one illustration and some pages have more than one, and a few of the illustrations extend across two facing pages.
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Elvira Garner was an American author and illustrator of children's books about Florida where she was born, lived, and died. Her best-known work is Ezekiel which along with Little Black Sambo was later considered a racist book. This work is her story set in St. Augustine. She illustrated four of five of her children's books.
Garner lived from 1886-1956.

Literature / Children's Literature

SPECIAL PZ7 .G1842 Sar 1939

Hardcover book, 8.25 x 6.125 inches

English

This book has another record in the "Beautiful Books" Exhibit Collection.
This book can be seen in the photograph, Display Case 7.
This book is part of our St. Augustine Fiction Collection.

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