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Near Fine. Softcover. c.1981. 8vo. 277pp. Near Fine. Very mild shelfwear. Contents unmarked. Inscribed and with letter from Walter McVitty to Margaret McElderry. The letter concerns "some information on a special diet for sufferers of arthritis." Originally from Ben Avon [near Pittsburgh, PA], Margaret McElderry (1912-2011) attended the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh School before moving to New York in the 1930s to work for the New York Public Library in the Children's Division under Anne Carroll Moore. After World War II, she became an editor of children's books at Harcourt Brace, eventually establishing her own imprint at Simon and Schuster. Miss McElderry was the first children's editor whose books won both the prestigious Newbery and Caldecott medals in the same year (1952). She was married to Storer Lunt (d. 1977), long-time publisher and eventual president of W.W. Norton.
