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Winter on the Prairie.
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Drawn from the author's childhood on the Iowa prairie and a sequel to Children of the Prairie. Gwen and Lynnie's family live, not on the raw frontier, but in a settlement that still has its dangers. Interesting details of pioneer life.
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Winter on the Prairie.
/Grace Paull, illustrator.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1945, 1st printing; cherry red cloth binding; endpapers with landscape of little farms at night in the snowy hills, colored frontis/title page spread with Gwen and Lynnie racing down a steep hill on their sled, many full page illustrations an drawings in text; in jacket identical to frontis/title page, 6.5x9"; 164 pp.
Juvenile hardback.
CONDITION: Near Fine in Good clipped jacket; no owner names, headbands bumped but otherwise very nice, in jacket with edgewear and rubs, wear to spine ends, half inch chip, 1.5x0.75" chip affecting title, 3 other tears to half inch.
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Control Number:
18911
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This book seems to be
This book seems to be something of an insider's classic, only one other on abe in a jacket, as I write. I bought it because I liked the snow scenes, but I ended up liking very much more than its famous counterpart. A lovely storyl. Did anyone grow up with this book?
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