Sun and Shadow

Title: Sun and Shadow

Author: Resnick, Rose

Publication: New York: Atheneum, 1975.

Description: Autobiography of Rose Resnick, blind activist, musician, educator, and co-founder of the Enchanted Hills Camp for the Blind in California. Signed by the author. First edition. Bound in quarter red cloth with gray paper over boards, lettering stamped in gilt on the spine. In unclipped pictorial dust jacket with image of Resnick and her guide dog on the rear panel. 8.75 x 5.75 inches; vii, [1], 274, [6] pages. Binding with edgewear, pronounced lean to spine, and some soiling to top and bottom edges of text block; dust jacket with moderate toning and multiple closed tears and chips at edges. Very Good- in a Good only jacket.

Resnick became blind due to glaucoma at the age of two. She became a leader in the blind community of California, helping blind children gain admission to San Francisco public schools and persuading the California Department of Corrections to provide audio books to incarcerated people.