Funk & Wagnalls. Fair with no dust jacket. 1956. Hard Cover. 0571060552 . Ex-Library; 17 oz.; 218 pages; Reading Copy. Ex library HC no DJ front hinge cracked cover some soiling/library stickers spine cloth split at top story clean/tight solid reading copy. The people of remote Inishrone, a few miles off the Connemara coast, know better than to go to the Island of Horses. Everyone has heard tales of men who have gone there and never come back. Yet one day young Pat Conroy and his friend Danny MacDonagh head off anyway, telling their parents that they are fishing for eels. On the island they find no ghosts but many mysteries, including a beautiful—and tame—black colt. But when they return home, with the colt in tow, they find themselves launched into a world of trouble. Before their adventure is over, the boys must brave rough seas and the murderous duplicity of a conniving horse trader, with only the advice of Pat's frail grandmother and their own good sense to guide them. .

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Eilís Dillon (1920-1994) wrote more than thirty books for young people, as well as fiction for adults, including the best-selling historical novel Across the Bitter Sea , about the struggle for Irish independence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With few exceptions, her young people’s books are set in the west of Ireland, in small communities struggling to make a living on the islands and along the Atlantic coast. As the critic Declan Kiberd wrote in Dillon’s obituary: “What Laura Ingalls Wilder did for children’s literature in the US, she achieved in Ireland, imparting a sure historical sense in books such as The Singing Cave . That interest in history was a natural expression of her curiosity of mind, and of her family inheritance."

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Seller: Mistymornin Books (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 6800
Title: Island Of Horses, The
Author: Dillon, Eilis
Format/Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Used - Fair with no dust jacket
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0571060552
ISBN 13: 9780571060559
Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls
Date Published: 1956
Keywords: 0571060552
Bookseller catalogs: Children's Books / Young Adult/Chapter;

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Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Reading Copy: Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...