The Village Band Mystery.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1956, stated first; red boards, blue topedge, detailed illustrations in text, in jacket with children playing ice hockey on frozen pond, 8vo; 8vo, 256 pp. Juvenile hardback.
"During her first winter in a Finnish-American village on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, Garnet felt unwanted until she had a chance to help her friend, Laurie Sironen, solve the mystery of the disappearance of some band instruments after a big fire." Fine, detailed drawings of children enjoying the New England winter and wonderful characters. Rare in this condition.
CONDITION: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket; no names, very tight and clean, straight, one tiny corner bump, in clipped jacket, tiny bumped chip at spine top, otherwise fine. Item #22502
Price: $150.00