l'Engle, Madeleine - Ilsa - (1st Edition Hardcover in Jacket)

This 1946 book still good but not perfect - Has neat book exchange stamp inside and the front free end-paper has been removed (Might have had a gift message on) -  416 pg.   -   Jacket unclipped showing original $ 2.73 price - Thumb size bit missing from bottom of wrapper spine  -  Published by The Vanguard Press, New York, 1946.    >>>    From the moment Henry Porcher first sees Ilsa Brandes, he worships her. Despite controversy surrounding the young girl, Henry is drawn to her, a fascination that turns into a lifelong infatuation.   -   As the years pass, Ilsa's memory never leaves him, not until the day he returns to their sleepy Southern hometown and renews their childhood friendship. Henry watches as she becomes a wife, then a mother, then a widow, irrevocably changed by tragedy.   -   Out of print for nearly six decades, this rare and sought-after novel is a portrait of a remarkable woman bound by both the stifling conventions of her time and place, and her own sense of honor and purpose.   >>>   L'Engle's uncommon second novel, following "The Small Rain" in 1945 . The book is atypical of L'Engle's work.  It was not reprinted until 2014.