I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green [FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION] 1964 • HRW

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green

FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION [1968] HOLT, RINEHART & WINSTON

Early cloth-bound book club printing with same jacket art as the first edition.

Vintage medium sized hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. 

Dust jacket is in beautiful shape; mild shelf and edge wear.  Now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.  

Book itself is near mint.  Pristine cloth bound boards.  Clean, tight and seemingly unread.

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality into the bondage of a lushly imagined but threatening kingdom, and her slow and painful journey back to sanity.

Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to help herself.

"I wrote this novel, which is a fictionalized autobiography, to give a picture of what being schizophrenic feels like and what can be accomplished with a trusting relationship between a gifted therapist and a willing patient. It is not a case history or study. I like to think it is a hymn to reality."