Wampum and Sixpence by Hayes, Marjorie - 1937

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little, Brown, and Company, 1937. Edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Brown cloth with yellow lettering on the front board and spine. 309 magical and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "It was summer of the year 1636, in the wilderness that was then Connecticut. The forest lay very still, the June sunlight sifting here and there through the fresh green foliage of the great oaks and chestnuts. At first glance you would have said that no one had ever passed that way, so rankly grew the underbrush, but if you looked more closely you might have seen a narrow trail winding in and out among the tree trunks, worn by the moccasined feet of many red men ----- runners with messages, braves on the warpath, or tribes moving from one camping ground to another............" ------ from Chapter 1 (The Newtown Emigrants).. Reprint. Brown Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Eunice Stephenson . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.