All Things New [*SIGNED*]

New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. [light staining to edges of text block, otherwise a good sound copy with only modest shelfwear; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, lightly browned at the spine, with tiny bits of paper loss at most corners and the spine ends]. (pen & ink chapter-head drawings) INSCRIBED ("Irma -- a charming / hostess and a kind friend") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. The story of a Russian girl whose family flees the Russian revolution and comes to New York. "The tale of sixteen-year-old Masha's adjustment to America, her battle to become an artist and her gradual realization of herself as a person, is one of the most vivid and unusual books for older girls that we have read," sez the jacket blurb. Two earlier books, "Mashinka's Secret" (1932) and "The Broken Song" (1934), chronicled the experiences of Masha and her family in Russia during the period immediately preceding the Revolution; the present volume is the scarcest of the three. The author's husband, a noted artist in his own right, often illustrated her books. While it may not surprise you (as it didn't surprise me) to learn that Mrs. Daugherty was of Russian origin herself (maiden name, Sonia Medvedeva), the fact that she and James were married in 1913 would seem to rule out the idea that these books are primarily autobiographical, at least as far as the "fleeing the Revolution" parts are concerned. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-fiction." Signed by Author .