GRANNY REARDUN by Alan Garner New York: Collins, (1978). First American edition, first printing. Evocative black-and-white full-page illustrations and dust jacket art by the multi-Kate Greenaway Award winning artist, Michael Foreman. Garner has won numerous awards including the World Fantasy Award, the Guardian Childrens Prize, and the Carnegie Medal. The second novella in the Stone Book quartet, in which Garner focused each book on one day in the life of a child in the Garner family, each from a different generation. The author draws from his own family's craftsman heritage where each generation tries to improve upon, or do their craft somewhat different from their predecessors. This novella features Joseph, a granny reardun, which is the name given to children whose parents can't afford to keep them and they are left to be reared by their grandparents. Joseph's grandfather is a stonemason. Fine in orange linen with blind embossed illustration to the front cover, and with gilt embossed titles to the spine; in a price-clipped very nearly fine dust jacket with a tiny rub-wear spot to the upper front panel.. A wonderfully inspiring children's novella, beautifully illustrated. Elusive in such fresh presentable condition in the first edition FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!