Description

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956. Hardcover, 503 pp. 1956 edition. Edited by Kate Doulas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith. Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Introduction by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Good in good dust jacket. Yellow cloth covered boards with illustrated color plate pasted on front cover and gold lettering on spine. Light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has several 1" or less nicks and tears and creasing along edges. light overall scuffing and soiling to jacket as well with a bit of the color scuffed off along edges. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From front jacket flap] For a book that had lived a century, to have as its editor in a skillful abridgment Kate Douglas Wiggin, and as its illustrator N. C. Wyeth, was fortunate indeed. The happy combination has kept this story of the times of Robert the Bruce, of Scottish chiefs, and particularly of Sir William Wallace, alive for almost another half century. Mrs Wiggin speaks of the story as "enchanting, pathetic, breathless in suspense, thrilling in its rapidity of movement and its astonishing wealth of interest." It is all of these. Written by a "carefully sheltered" young Englishwoman, the book became a spectacular success and the author was frequently greeted in public with the music of the song that seemed to belong to her as well as to Scotland: "Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots wham Bruce hath often led Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory!"