The Battlefield Ghost by Margery Cuyler - 1999

New York: Scholastic Press, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Arthur Howard. Stated First Edition, complete no. line(10-1) and date of year. Covers with blue paper and quarter plum-colored cloth binding. 103 pp. 8.5" tall. Embossed ghost horse rider and gilt spine print. Original price intact on dust jacket flap. Arthur Howard has illustrated Mr. Putter and Tabby books by Cynthia Rylant plus Gooseberry Park, and When I Was Five. Ms Cuyler has written several chapter books and was inspired by the history of her 300 year old house and the Hessian soldier who haunted it. Book is clean with no writing or remainder mark - just a spine head crunch. The dust jacket also has a spine head crunch and a closed tear on the back of approximately .60" with an adjacent light creasing on the jacket's bottom This story is about a Revolutionary soldier who was killed in the Battle of Princeton and haunts the house of a family with 2 children.