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Luck O'Lady Joan: A Fairy Tale for Women by Josephine Daskam Bacon. 1913 F.G. Browne Co, 58 pages, unstated printing. Illustrated by Clara Elsene Williams. A children's Christmas story about an orphan girl melting a Scrooge's heart. Bacon wrote books for children and adults often with a female protagonist. She was also instrumental in the Girl Scout movement and wrote the guidebook.
Condition: Jacket VG with tanning and chips, book in VG condition with tanned endpapers.
"Of all the misers that ever laid one farthing on another and went hungry for a third to warm the two with, old Dudleigh Hartover of Hartover Chine was surely the stingiest and the meanest."

Wigger by William Goldman. 1974 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, first edition. Let's get this out of the way; Wigger is the name of the blanket that is the greatest comfort to the girl in the story, Susanna, that is until the blanket and Susanna become separated. William Goldman wrote the Princess Bride and the screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men. Wigger, a novella, was his only proper children's book. Illustrated by the award-winning Errol Le Cain.
Condition: Jacket and book in very good condition.