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DUTCH UNCLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set in a New Mexico mining town in 1880 where Jake Hollander, a mean hard man, former gunslinger and cardshark, finds himself the reluctant custodian of two Mexican orphans. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1269300.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some rubbing to the dj, short tear at fold of rear flap)
Book ID: 61524More details Price: $16.50 -
THERE IS NO ME WITHOUT YOU: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bloomsbury, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Haregewoin Teffera of Ethiopa, whose Addis Ababa home became an unofficial orphanage and day school for the children left bereft by the AIDS crisis. Illustrated with color photographs. ISBN: 1596911166.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 59120More details Price: $15.00 -
LOVEY MARY .
Edition: First edition.
New York: The C e n t u r y C o m p a n y , 1903. Hardcover first edition - This story of an orphan girl is a sequel to the author's enormously popular "M r s . W i g s s o f t h e C a b b a g e P a t c h. " Illustrated with a frontispiece and 17 glossy plates by Florence Shinn. 197 pp. Small format.
Condition: Very good in dark green pictorial boards (which repeat the illustration found on the frontispiece.) Bookplate, one plate is detached, but still present.
Book ID: 47987More details Price: $12.00
