When she began digitizing The Cheerleader, her goal was to retain the look of the original hardcover, but this was a challenge because fashions in type fonts have changed since the 1970s. She is also a book designer, having designed the texts of The Snowy Series for Frigate Books starting with Henrietta Snow. Subsequent printings were made from the second printing.Īs you know, Marney is the Web master of this site. A year later, in the second printing, Ann Norton’s foreword was added. When the first trade paperback reprint was done by Frigate Books in 1998, the original 1973 hardcover copy was photocopied and new front matter was added, with a page of book-review quotes and an updated list of my books.
With this printing, the novel has entered the twenty-first century it is the first printing to be digitized. Although it’s a printing, not an edition, in its way it too is old and new wine in a new bottle. Love, Dan.”ĭuring the past year, Marney Wilde and I have been working on not a new edition of The Cheerleader for Frigate Books but the fifth printing. I remember that when my father gave us a new edition of his 50 Hikes in the White Mountains, he inscribed it, “For Ruthie and Don-Old and new wine in a new bottle. Ruth Doan MacDougall Essays, Journal Entries, Reflections & Short Stories Three-Ring Circus:
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