Jane Louise Curry LOTUS CUP First edition and similar items

THE LOTUS CUP By Jane Louise Curry. New York: Atheneum, A Margaret K. McElderry Book, 1986. First edition, first printing. "First edition" statement to the copyright page, 1986 printed to the title page, $12.95 to the jacket's flap. By the author of the Ohio Valley based magical Abaloc series. Winner of the Ohioana Award. Curry, who was raised in East Liverpool, Ohio, sets this young adult novel there, where generations of residents were potters, as seen in the local Museum of Ceramics. Seventeen-year-old Cory Tipson is featured, who works with an heirloom porcelain formula--and discovers she has the natural talent to become a master potter like her ancestors. Fine, very tight and unread, and square in fresh red-wine linen with blind embossed titles to the front cover and slate-blue embossed titles to the spine, brown-and-yellow headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket with art by Ed Martinez. An exceptionally well-preserved first printing collectible. NOT an ex-library copy. The dust jacket will be placed in a clear, removable protective sleeve after photographing for this entry. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!