Search Results: Childrens Stories from River House Books

Hardcover Cloth 120 pages. Condition Good NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1930. Nice blue boards and red embossing shows off this tight, square copy with no highlights or bookplates. Previous owner's marks on title pages, aircraft on pages 76 and 77 colored in and a chunk torn from non-text bottom of page 77. Book covers are worn with some stains and bumped corners. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned with minor signs of wear and/or age. Numerous color and B&W illustrations. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. If the author rings a bell for you, it might be that you remember Alexander Key from Walt Disney's 1961's Escape to Witch Mountain.Brothers Ned and Richard Jemeson, smitten by the aviation bug after having heard about Charles Lindbergh's epic 1927 journey, get a visit from Uncle Jim who owns a plane called the Red Eagle. When he visits he just lands the plane on their farmland. After they've cleared an area for a runway for him of course. Both boys really… Read More