Author: TRIGGS, LOVELL BEALL
Title: Rosalita
Description: New York: Century Company Co, 1932. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Weda Yapp. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. Illustrated throughout by Weda Yap. " When Louise came back to New York a year later, she and Chu Pei, and not 12-year old Gertrude, moved to a house on charming crooked Grove Street in the West Village. Now she took the name Weda Yap. Many years later, she explained: My real name is Louise Drew Cook. My professional name, Weda Yap, was acquired during a long and close association with the Chinese. The ideographs which are used to write this name mean “a witty and sagacious page." In 1932, Weda published Abigail’s Private Reason, the only book she wrote. That same year, she drew pictures for Rosalita, the story of “a charming Spanish girl who lived on a ranch with her family when California was ruled by the Mexican government. Rosalita’s impetuous search for a doll results in her being kidnapped, ” according to a review.". Very Good+ .
Keywords: Young Adult Fiction Lovell Beall Triggs Weda Yapp Californiana Spanish California History Of California Young Adult Fiction
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Title: Rosalita
Description: New York: Century Company Co, 1932. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Weda Yapp. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. Illustrated throughout by Weda Yap. " When Louise came back to New York a year later, she and Chu Pei, and not 12-year old Gertrude, moved to a house on charming crooked Grove Street in the West Village. Now she took the name Weda Yap. Many years later, she explained: My real name is Louise Drew Cook. My professional name, Weda Yap, was acquired during a long and close association with the Chinese. The ideographs which are used to write this name mean “a witty and sagacious page." In 1932, Weda published Abigail’s Private Reason, the only book she wrote. That same year, she drew pictures for Rosalita, the story of “a charming Spanish girl who lived on a ranch with her family when California was ruled by the Mexican government. Rosalita’s impetuous search for a doll results in her being kidnapped, ” according to a review.". Very Good+ .
Keywords: Young Adult Fiction Lovell Beall Triggs Weda Yapp Californiana Spanish California History Of California Young Adult Fiction
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 35026
- Book number: 35026
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