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A young New England boy who was an aviator in WWI, then a newspaper man, a script writer...made into a movie in 1940.

Hardcover VG with no dj
Little Brown and Company , first
1943

Pantheon, 1958 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. September 1958, stated third printing. Grey boards with red overlay at spine, VG condition. Usual shelf wear at edges and spine,one inch split at front bottom edge of spine. Dedication to PO owner "mom" and PO's name and address on inside cover. Pulitzer Prize Winner .

Little Brown and Company, Boston 1942. VG/none Red hard boards with black titles to front and spine. some fading to spine, light soiling and shelf wear. Same date on title page. Stated First Edition, April 1942.

Charles Scribners, 1949 First Edition. VG/none. Chocolate brown hard boards, white title on spine - library edition w/ library stamps. Some of the interior pages have small tears at the bottom from turning then pages of this well loved book. Beautiful, quaint water color illustrations by Leo Politi. Illustrations on every page. Caldecott award winner 1950. A delightful story of friendship between a young boy and an old man who is the Bell Ringer at San Juan Capistrano Mission. Juan, the young boy makes friends with all the sparrows that return every year.

1874 , Popular EditionConsidered one of the greatest historical works on the Spanish in America.Historical account of Peru in the late 1800'sBeautiful burgundy covers, all over arabesque designs blocked in blind and lettered and decorated in gilt long the spine. Clean and crisp internally. No dj as issuedVery Good/noneAfter favorable reception of his first books Prescott set out to write about the history of the Spanish conquest of the Incas of Peru. The Incas contact with the devastatingly powerful empire of Spain, one of the most epic confrontations in the annals of human history. Prescotts rendering of the story has always been considered one of the great historical works on the Spanish in America and one of the great works in American history.

Henry Holt and Company 1944, Wartime edition. VG++/noneClean tight copy, no marks, no smells, no foxing or tears. The true story of a wartime journalist who was killed in the line of duty.