Lucky Me...

How lucky was I to find this beautiful book last weekend at the thrift store?
A first edition book from 1912. At first I was attracted to the book because of the blue spine and the green checks, then I pulled it off the shelf and saw the title and the font and I knew I had to have it. I was thinking it might be a good book to alter. It was also 50% off day at Goodwill that Saturday. I brought it home with my other finds, but didn't really look at it.


My Mom came over to visit and I showed here the book. She found a picture of the author that had been cut out of a magazine, she also found a four leaf clover.


not one...

not two...

not three...

but four!

It wasn't until this morning while taking pictures that I discovered the fourth of the 4 leaf clovers!
In the back of the book was yet another find, a magazine article from Women's World dated May 1925, most likely for Mother's Day.

Now that I am curious about Kathleen Norris, I googled her and found out that Mother was her first book of many. She was born in San Fransico and died in Palo Alto- (my hood)

Here is the dedication in the front of the book:

To J.E.T and J.A.T.

As years ago we carried to your knees
The tales and treasures of eventful days,
Knowing no deed too humble for your praise,
Nor any gift too trivial to please,
So still we bring, with older smiles and tears,
What gifts we may to claim the old, dear right;
Your faith, beyond the silence and the night,
Your love still close and watching through the years.

I am sure that this was dedicated to her parents, her maiden name was Thompson. She was born in San Fransico in tht 1880's, so she must have been in the 1906 quake. I will find out more about her and keep you posted of my findings.