Children of the Prairie.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1938, 1st nap; dark blue boards, endpaper with landscape of Iowa cornfield across the spread, colored illustrated title spread and many large black and white pictures and pictures in text, in jacket with all-around illustrations of little girls running across an Iowa wheatfield toward a horse-driven stationary threshing machine; 6.5x9"; 198 pp. Juvenile hardback.
"A childhood spent on an Iowa prairie gave Miss Curtis the background for her book. In those days Iowa was turning from the flax- and wheat-growing of pioneer days to the production of oats and corn and hogs. She went to a small schoolhouse, just as do Lynnie and Gwen. She, too, had a Cornish pony, for all her forebears came from Cornwall, England"... then as a professor "she is still interested in farming. But she writes of the Iowa prairie - a lovely land in the fall and spring, a terrifying land in winter storms and summer cyclones. To her it is a rich and beautiful country which has bred a sturdy people who love its prairies." From dw flap. Followed by Winter on the Prairie (1945).
CONDITION: Very Good Plus in Fair jacket; no names or other marks, pages flat and clean, minor rubs and bumps to extremities, in clipped, jacket with paper loss and long tears in spine. See images, but image looks better than it is because someone has over-repaired it with Scotch tape, looks fine now but it will yellow, not archival. Item #19442
$45