LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow.

£1,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Gift from the Sea. First edition of this "classic of prefeminism" (ANB), signed by the author on the title page in February 1977.An account of a vacation beachcombing alone on Florida's Captiva Island, Gift From the Sea is a "reflection on a woman's life", in which Lindbergh, taking particular inspiration from shells such as the the channelled whelk, the moon shell, the oyster, and the paper nautilus, writes about "balancing personal needs, social expectations, and obligations to family and community" (ANB).Laid in is a clipping of brown packing paper retaining Lindbergh's address at Scott's Cove, Darien, Connecticut - presumably from the parcel in which the author mailed this copy to the recipient.

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