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BANNERS OF COURAGE: The Lives of 14 Heroic Men and Women.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Platt & Munk, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Brief biographical sketches written for older children or young adults. Includes chapters on Amelia Earhart, Winston S. Churchill, Martin Luther King, Richard E. Byrd, Rachel Carson, Chief Joseph, Anne Frank, Jacques Cousteau, William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony, Alvin York, Joan of Arc, Heinrich Schliemann, and Alain Bombard (with this French doctor who proved that man can survive at sea with no supply of food or water, being perhaps the least known of the 14). Each chapter is preceded by a full page drawing by Huntley Brown. Wraparound dustjacket painting by Alan Leiner. 258 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (previous owner's name in pencil, some light wear to top edge of dj, now protected by an archival cover.)
Book ID: 32679More details Price: $17.50 -
FROM WHERE THE SUN NOW STANDS.
Edition: First UK printing.
New York: Madison Park Press, (2007.) dj. Hardcover - Reprint of this award winning novel originally published in 1960 -it won the Spur Award of the Western Writers of America for the best historical Western novel of 1960. A title in The John Jakes Library of Historical Fiction with a new introduction by John Jakes. This is the story the 113-day fighting retreat waged by Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce in 1877, as told by a young Indian warrior in that epic and ultimately tragic rearguard action. Map. xvii, 279 pp. ISBN: 9781582882840.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52777More details Price: $15.00