Life I Live: Collected Poems. Written and Fully Illustrated by Lois Lenski. First. In Dust Jacket.

The Life I Live: Collected Poems (Fully Illustrated by Lenski); Lois Lenski; Walck (1965); 1st/1st (7.50 price on front flap); 8vo, VGVG; Not Ex-Library, Not Facsimile, Not Print on Demand; Hb-Bright blue w/crisp, stamped gilt lettering+decoration to front+spine, almost no edgewear. DUST JACKET-Bright multi-colored pictorial front w/blue back,white lettering, chipping to spine top/bottom/points, brodart protected. 238pps- clean (previous owner’s name inked on last name. ‘The Life I Live’ is first complete collection of Lenski's verse: 368 selections, profusely illustrated. Beloved author+illustrator of children’s + young adult books + poetry, Lois Lenski won the Newbery Medal for her 1946 book ‘Strawberry Girl’ part of a collection of American regional children’s novels.From the book’s forward written by Lenski‘This is the happiest of all my books. Into it has gone a lifetime of love and devotion to children. Most of my poems have been spontaneous outpourings, only a few have been devi