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The Children Sing in the Far West
The Children Sing in the Far West
The Children Sing in the Far West
The Children Sing in the Far West
The Children Sing in the Far West
The Children Sing in the Far West

The Children Sing in the Far West

AUSTIN, Mary.

The Children Sing in the Far West: Poems for Children.

FIRST EDITION. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928.

Small 8vo. 188 pp. With drawings by Gerald Cassidy. Red pictorial boards in the publisher's illustrated dust jacket. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.

A gathering of Mary Austin's poems for children, drawn, as she explains in her preface, from nearly forty years of writing — many of the verses first appearing across decades in St. Nicholas, The Youth's Companion, The Nation, The Forum, and other magazines. Austin writes that she made most of the poems "with the help of the children in my school," and that doing so led her "into the secret of how the great Southwest feels." The drawings are by Gerald Cassidy (1879–1934), the Santa Fe painter known for his Southwestern subjects. The Children Sing in the Far West, published late in her life, is less often collected than that book but belongs on any full Austin shelf — particularly in the original jacket.

SKU TO-2026-058 

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