Cole once revealed in his Saturday Review column his regrettable personal connection with The Giving Tree, “Shel came to me with a children’s book he’d written and I, an editor at Simon & Schuster, read it and told him: ‘Look, Shel, I like it but it won’t sell. American editor and anthologist William Rossa Cole edited over 50 anthologies of verse for children and adults throughout his career which included tenures at Knopf, Simon & Schuster and Viking, where he had his own imprint, William Cole Books. Association copy, inscribed by Shel Silverstein on the front free endpaper to his editor and publicist William Cole with a drawing that extends over to the verso of the front panel of the story’s little boy beholding the stump of the giving tree which has been carved into the towering initials, “RAB.” The inscription reads, “Carvings on Bill Cole’s Stump – For You Know Who With Love – Shel.” The initials belong to the children of Cole’s three children: Rossa, Alex, and Billy. First edition of “one of the most divisive books in children’s literature.” Octavo, original boards, illustrated.
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