Paint the Wind

London, England: Michael Joseph. Very Good. 1959. 1st British Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The spine of the book cover has some light fading. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page, and the front endpaper has a portion of the dust jacket with photos of the author and the illustrator pasted on the front endpaper. There is a short inked notation on the rear endpaper and another inked number on the rear pastedown page. "Alberta Leona Pierson Hannum (August 3, 1906 - February 18, 1985) was an author best known for her best-selling novel Roseanna McCoy, a fictionalized account of the Hatfield-McCoy feud, which was turned into a motion picture in 1949 by RKO General. Hannum lived in Moundsville, West Virginia and wrote fiction, non-fiction and essays. Many of her books showcased life in the Appalachians ranging from West Virginia down to North Carolina in a style Kirkus Reviews called "very mountain-dewy" in 1969. She also wrote short fiction including a story that Maclean's called "one of the most unusual stories we've ever published" about a man who went to heaven in 1944. Her writing did focus on contemporary themes reflected against this rural backdrop; her first novel Thursday April explored "the meaning of the World War to the mountain folk." Her books have been translated into Italian, Korean, Laotian, Russian, and Yugoslavian. " (from Wikipedia) .