Buttonwood Island by Lavinia Davis

***Uncommon children’s mystery novel involving horses. Scarce in original dust jacket***

OVERALL CONDITION: VG+/VG-

Published in 1941 by Doubleday Doran. First edition, second printing. In original ten cloth with green pictorial cover and spine lettering. Pictorial endpapers. Octavo. 299 pages. In original & scarce dust jacket. Illustrated by Paul Brown.

THE PLOT

The two oldest of the four Hardwickes discovered a real island not far from where they lived. It was a gem of an island set off by the river. At one end was a giant buttonwood tree and in its shadow was a little weatherbeaten barn. It was near impossible to keep an island a secret and almost at once the new neighbor boy, Sig, from the next farm, and their younger brother and sister, the twins, all knew all about it. It was Sig's idea to start a riding club with the old barn as a secret stable.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lavinia Riker Davis (1909–1961) was an American author of picture books, teenage novels, and mysteries for children and adults. She wrote over forty books, mostly under her own name, but sometimes using the pseudonym "Wendell Farmer".

She also wrote short stories, some published in The American Girl, The American Boy, St Nicholas and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

One of her illustrators, Hildegard Woodward, was twice awarded the Caldecott Honor for her illustrations to books written by Lavinia R. Davis, Roger and the Fox in 1948, and The Wild Birthday Cake in 1950.

CONDITION:

The book is in VERY GOOD+ collectible condition. Colorful, unfaded, clean boards with only a few small spots of soiling. Very slight spine lean, firm hinges and joints, tight pages. Lightly rubbed spine tips and edges. A few stains to top edge. Interior is clean with no writing, stamps or ex-libris marks.

The scarce dust jacket is in VERY GOOD- condition - not price-clipped though all four flaps are clipped. Beautiful jacket art, light dust soiling, lightly sunned spine, edge wear chipping and creasing with a 2” x 1” area of paper loss on rear bottom panel.

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