A Cup of Sun: A Book of Poems by Joan Walsh Anglund [FIRST EDITION] 1967 • Harcourt Brace

A Cup of Sun: A Book of Poems written and illustrated by Joan Walsh Anglund

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1967] HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH

1st printing w/ 2.75 jacket price in tact on front panel.  Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket is clean with some mild shelf / edge wear; now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector. 

Book itself is mint.  Pristine yellow cloth boards.  Reads like new. 

Joan Walsh Anglund, whose charmingly thoughtful texts and appealing illustrations have enchanted millions of adults and children alike in this country and abroad, has now set down in poetry and aphorisms some singularly graceful and deeply felt thoughts that will gain a quick response from her host of admirers as well as from those who have not had the pleasure of encountering her work before.

"A bird does not sing  because he has an answer. He sings because he has a song."

There is, in these poems, that special magic that calls forth repeated readings and a deepening sense of the beauty and gentle wisdom with which Joan Anglund approaches those moments, joyful or sad, great or small, that make up the very fabric of life.  The present volume contains twenty-eight pages of text, each faced by a small, decorative drawing. This is a book for keeping and for giving, and most of all for sharing.