Author: (Murphy, Charles R.). Abeel, Samantha.
Title: What Once Was White.
Description: Traverse City, MI: Hidden Bay Publishing, (1993). (1993). INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE TEENAGE AUTHOR - Small oblong quarto [8-3/4 inches high by 11-1/4 inches wide], maroon cloth titled in silver on the spine with a vignette of the man in the moon on the front cover, in a pictorial dust wrapper. There is an area of dampstaining to the bottom edge of each cover with a small stain to the bottom edge of the dust jacket rear panel internally. Unpaginated. Profuse full-page color illustrations after watercolors by Charles R. Murphy. The contents & dust wrapper are near fine. Very good.

First edition.

Edited by Roberta Williams.

Inscribed by the author, a gifted thirteen-year-old girl with learning disabilities when she wrote this book which was published 3 years later: "To ...'Never Give up / Dreams can come true!' / Love / Samantha Abeel". Included in the rear are two poems by Abeel and a recounting of her difficulties and remarkable success by her mother and her teacher. Very good .

Keywords: CHILDREN'S; ILLUSTRATED; SAMANTHA ABEEL; WHAT ONCE WAS WHITE; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; LEARNING DISABLED; LEARNING DISABILITIES; ILLUSTRATOR; WATERCOLORS; CHARLES R. MURPHY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

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