Author: Willard, Nancy.
Title: The Lively Anatomy of God.
Description: New York: The Eakins Press, (1968). (1968). INSCRIBED AND SIGNED WITH A DRAWING - Octavo, cloth in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The corners of the covers & the tail of the spine are rubbed. The dust jacket is lightly chipped around the edges with its spine slightly faded. 95 pages plus colophon. Very good.

First edition.

This collection of short stories is inscribed to Alex Roth and signed in full by Nancy Willard on the front endpaper with a quote from Saint-Exupery's Le Petit Prince and a drawing of a horse in purple ink. Laid in is an unsigned, autograph note to Roth scribbled on the bottom of a mechanically reproduced memo: "Alex -- where did you find The Lively Anatomy of God? At a bookshop for Obscure Books?.."

Nancy Willard [b. 1936] won the 1982 Newbery Medal for "A Visit to William Blake's Inn". Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; FICTION; SHORT STORIES; AMERICAN AUTHOR; NANCY WILLARD; INSCRIBED; ORIGINAL DRAWING; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; AUTOGRAPH NOTE; THE LIVELY ANATOMY OF GOD; NEWBERRY MEDAL-WINNER; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

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