Jared's Island.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1947; stated first. Brown cloth boards with stamped picture of Jared, map endpapers of Barnegat Bay on the Jersey Coast, in green jacket with painting of Jared walking along the shore; 7.4x9.9"; 95 pp. Juvenile hardback.
Shipwrecked on his voyage to the New World, Jared looses everything, including his brother, and is taken in by a Quaker family. Later Jared runs away to live with the Indians. "small-boy adventures in the half-wild New Jersey of the 1760's"
CONDITION: Very Good in Good Plus jacket; spine ends bumped, in jacket with creases rubbed, chips to extremities, wrinkles around spine top affecting "J"; 2", and 1" closed tears; unclipped 2.50. Item #13784
$30