Barde

1950 · réf. 64687 — Philadelphia PA & New York NY: J.B. Lippincott Co. 1950. 8vo. 256 pp. Navy-blue publisher’s cloth red & silver lettering on spine slight shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art of typewriter keys minor shelfwear light dustsoiling to back cover NF/VG copy inscribed by the author on ffep. “Foo Salia -- Who is too pretty to have such a hard name.” First edition stated price $ 2.75 inscribed of this memoir about the author’s life experiences and often disastrous adventures with her sister Mary Bard Jensen in childhood and then in the aftermath of her divorce following the events of the “Egg and I” raising children in the midst of the Great Depression finding employment through whatever schemes her family thought up and surviving tuberculosis. Her “helpful sister” was Mary Bard Jensen 1904-1970 who dropped out of the Univ. of Washington worked as a stenographer and switchboard operator and later wrote advertising jingles for radio commercials before egging on Betty into writing her well-received and humorous memoirs. See: Mildred Andrews Betty MacDonald 1907-1958 HistoryLink Essay 156 Nov. 4 1998. J.B. Lippincott Co., hardcover