"Where Do You Go When You Run Away?" by Joan L. Nodset, pictures by Adriana Saviozzi, published by The Bobbs Merrill Company, Inc., A subsidiary of Howard W. Sams & Co., Indianapolis, New York, 1964. First Edition.

Original dust jacket is sealed in plastic [a few damages are also sealed], price clipped front flap; illustrated hard boards have the same design as the dj; 10" x 7", 32 pages, all pages are illustrated, a little wear, very good condition.

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, as Joan Lexau, the author later found employment as an editorial secretary, an advertising production manager, and a free-lance writer. She also worked with Harper and Row Publishers until 1961, the same year her first book saw publication. This success encouraged her to write full-time and primarily for children, though she also contributed to adult magazines such as Good Housekeeping. Four of her books, during the years between 1963 and 1973, were published under her pen name Joan L. Nodset.

Adriana Mazza Saviozzi (1918-2009) was Italian-American writer and illustrator of children books. Born in Pistoia on April 8, 1918, Adriana Saviozzi was the first of three children of Pietro and Alma Melani, the latter's cousin of the artist Marino Marini. According to the artistic vein of the family, Adriana attended florentine art school. At the Art Academy Adriana learned to modulate colors, under the guidance of masters Godfrey and Sanzio Trovarelli, Emanuele Cavalli, Primo Conti and Ottone Rosai. Contacts came in the years of his cultural growth with Pietro Annigoni. By the early 1950s, Adriana had become an illustrator of children's books for several Italian publishing houses: R. Franceschini & Figlio; Nerbini Publishers; Felice Le Monnier Publishing House and 'La Scuola' of Brescia.

In 1955 Adriana joined her husband in New York-- here came the prestigious collaborations with many American publishing houses; Folket I Bilds Faerlag - Stockholm - Simon and Schuster, Inc. and Artists and Writers Guild, Inc. - Western Printing and Lithograhing Company New York, to name a few.

1972 was the year of the meeting between Adriana and the publisher Bruno Nardini who had founded the Centro Internazionale del Libro S.P.A., which in turn was part of the Giunti publishing group. The collection 'Fables and Legends' was born in this period.

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