FLIGHT TO JEWELL ISLAND.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of what courage means and how a young boy learned to overcome his fears. Based on an actual incident in Maine during King Phillip's War in 1676 - because of the Indian raids the Potts family and their neighbors left their homes to travel offshore to Jewell Island. There they felt so safe they left nine year old Thomas Potts to guard the fort. When Thomas saw the Indians lower their war canoes off Cliff Island, he fired the shot that saved the island. Illustrated with drawings by J. C. Kocsis.
Condition: Very good in gold cloth in a fair only dust jacket (2 long tears to back cover of dj, other edgewear, upper corner of front flap clipped, but price of 3.25 still present in lower corner).