SWAMP BOY: A STORY OF THE OKEFINOKEE SWAMP IN GEORGIA.
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1948]. Illustrations by Winfield Hoskins. First Edition. Signed presentation from Cormack on the half-title page: For Frank & Mariam Salisbury, From a Reconstructed Rebel with her love, Maribelle Cormack.” Maribelle Cormack [1902-1984] was director of the Park Museum in Providence, Rhode Island and children's author. Her archives, at the University of Oregon Library, includes manuscripts, publications, correspondence, illustrations, photographs, radio scripts, and book reviews of her work, as well as biographical material, including an autobiographical sketch and genealogy. A scarce title, especially in dust jacket and signed by the author. 8vo., pictorial green cloth, stamped in silver, in original dust jacket; 290 pages. Item #57261
Very Good (minor wear covers; little evidence of a bookplate removed from verso of front endpaper, resulting in a few light brown spots to the half-title page; else contents clean & tight); some wear (small chips with few at head of chip, short tears, two old, internal tape mends) d/j.
Price: $175.00