Vintage book Babs Faith Baldwin Divine Corners series It was published in the 1931. Rare 1st edition volume with original dust jacket. Classic Quaint girl/teen stories of the time with heroine seeking a adventure with flying lessons and learning to fly and her interatction with her Athenian Club "pals". It's a typical Faith Baldwin book that presents a highly simplified version of life among the wealthy. No matter what the difficulties, honor and goodness triumph, ... a delightful juvenile fiction book (nice lit book for home school) (see Faith Baldwin bio info below) Nice book for your bookshelf or side table; charmingly quaint elegant shabby chic decor... ( see pics and ck shop main page for more info on shipping/policies/etc & ask questions if needed) To see more in the When Roses Bloom collection.
DIMENSIONS and SPECS: Approx. 7 1/2" X 5 1/4" X 1 3/8" 322 Pages Grosset & Dunlap Publishers New York circa 1931 rare 1st edition with dust jacket. Divine Corners series Author Faith Baldwin. (see photos as they are part of description). Book is in good vintage condition for age with wear/fade on paper jacket. Binding firm. List of popular book titles in back of book and on paper jacket Please see photos as they are part of the description. Use zoom feature to see greater detail.
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FAITH BALDWIN BIOGRAPHICAL details from Antiquarian Booksellers Association:
Faith Baldwin was once one of the bestselling authors in America, although she was never a lauded award-winner. Instead, Baldwin practiced what was variously called “light” or popular fiction, and today is generally called romance — usually with a touch of superiority. In her obituary, The New York Times declared her ‘the doyenne of American light fiction writers.” Raised in relative wealth and comfort in Manhattan, Baldwin initially saw acting as a means for a single women to gain independence, but as her writing career took off, she embraced it.
At the start, she wrote for the women’s magazines, publishing poetry and prose -- whatever there was a market for. In 1921, she published her first novel, Mavis of Green Hill, and by 1927 she was able to regularly sell the serialization rights for many of her novels to mainstream magazines, assuring herself of a steady income. She wrote novels for a variety of age groups. Critics have alternately praised Baldwin for being a proto-feminist and dismissed her for being too conservative, which is unsurprising as Baldwin generally wrote about the domestic concerns of love, marriage, and a woman's career, concerns which tend to be under-appreciated in any age. But, in novels like Private Duty (1935), Hotel Hostess (1938), and Career By Proxy (1939) she often returned to the question of whether a woman could be fulfilled through work and also find marital bliss — although her heroines often had to accept their fate of leaving their job after marriage — and she frequently focused on women who resisted the status quo. The Feminist Press republished Baldwin’s 1931 novel Skyscraper in 2004 as part of a series that celebrated female pulp fiction. Skyscraper concerns a young woman who works, but whose beau cannot yet afford to marry her. Will he accept a woman who works, and will she be able to pursue her career? Those were important questions to women at the time, and increasingly after WWII brought so many into the workforce for the first time.
However, those were also important questions to Baldwin personally. An astute observer of the social mores of her time, she was a deft hand at allowing her heroines to push against the edges of what was acceptable.
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