King of Wreck Island 1941 Barbara Cooney ~ First Edition ~ a tale set on the Downeast Maine/Acadia coast

Title: King of Wreck Island

Author: Written and Illustrated by Barbara Cooney

Description: First edition with 'FR' symbol on copyright page. Boards in blue cloth with black lettering. Slightly darkened around edges of covers. Area of toning on a couple pages where a newspaper clipping had been laid in, otherwise interior is unmarked and generally clean. Dust jacket has some chipping and edge wear; not price clipped ($1.50); remainder of old price sticker on rear flap; in an archival mylar sleeve. 91 pages.

Barbara Cooney's first book to be both written and illustrated by her (the fact that this is her debut as a writer is acknowledged on the rear flap). King of Wreck Island is set in a small village on the coast of Maine in the Blueberryville/Acadia region.

Over the course of Coony's long and successful career, she was to receive two Caldecott Medals (1959, 1980) and a National Book Award (1982). In 1994, Cooney was the U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books.


Binding: Hardback
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good (-)

Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated
Place: New York | Toronto
Year: 1941

Keywords: Maine, children's, Downeast Maine, Acadia, Maine coast,