Tortoise

by Candlelight by Nina Bawden

$25 · Offered by Good Books in the Woods

First edition

Hardcover, New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. First US Edition. With the single-minded ferocity of a mother tiger defending her cubs, Emmie at fourteen, watches over her household: her amiable drunken father, her gaunt, evangelical old grandmother, her nubile older sister, and most precious of all, eight-year-old Oliver, with the

• Printing: first
• Binding: Hardcover

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