THE EMPTY NEST


By Josephine Lawrence

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, (1956).

First edition, first printing.

"First edition" statement to the copyright page.

Josephine Lawrence, journalist, author of fifty-one of the Stratemeyer syndicate juvenile series books, writer of the first children's book reading radio broadcast entitled 'The Man in the Moon Talks To Children', and prolific novelist, is also credited for reflecting cultural issues with femininity, women, and aging that reinforced changes in social policy and legislation.

She is most well-known for her novel adapted to the film 'Make Way For Tomorrow'.

This, Lawrence's twentieth novel, features a mother who adjusts to her son and daughter getting married and leaving "the nest", and with her issues of a different life and independence afterward.

Address label to the inside front cover, else near fine in waxed gray linen with burgundy embossed titles to the spine; in a price-clipped very good plus dust jacket with a small chip from the upper corner of the front panel and a small chip from the upper spine end.

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