Porter (Jeannette Stratton) Freckles Comes Home
£125
London, Heinemann, 1929.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original green cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Written as a sequel to the original Freckles (1904), written by the author’s mother Gene Stratton-Porter. The book was the basis for the 1942 film of the same name.
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An excellent copy, in an uncommonly good example of the dust-jacket.
Jacket artwork by Thomas Fogarty.
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