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HAYWOOD,CAROLYN. BACK TO SCHOOL WITH BETSY. NY: Harcourt Brace and Company (1943 I). 8vo (6 1/2 x 9"), pictorial cloth, 176p., Fine in dust wrapper with rear flap but rear panel. 1st edition of the third "Betsy" book, this tells the adventures of Betsy, Billy and their friends in second grade. Both written and illustrated by her with full page and half-page pen and ink drawings and pictorial endpapers. THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED TO FELLOW BRANDYWINE ARTISTS VIOLET OAKLEY AND EDITH EMERSON: "TO VIOLET AND EDITH UPON THE OCCASION OF THEIR FIRST VISIT TO MEADOWBROOK CIRCLE - CAROLYN HAYWOOD". Haywood was a Philadelphia artist and author who studied with Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green. She was also Violet Oakley's studio assistant and she worked with Edith Emerson, the fourth member of the Brandywine women's team. She wrote more than 30 children's books, many still in print. In addition to her books, Haywood was a mural artist as well as a portrait painter specializing in children's portraits. This is a great association copy in excellent condition.

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