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The Cuckoo Tree by Aiken, Joan
First American Edition
Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1971. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Obrant, Susan. When Dido Twite comes back to England, mischief awaits. While her friend Captain Hughes recovers from a carriage accident, Dido stays at the Dogkennel Cottages and meets the odd dwellers of Tegleaze Manor: The strange old Lady Tegleaze, her nephew, Tobit, and his old witch of a nurse, Sannie. Soon odd things begin to happen. A priceless miniature is stolen. Tobit is framed and then kidnapped. A twin sister is found. And when Dido sees her rascally father in Petworth, she is sure she's in the midst of another horrible plot. Can she somehow save St. Paul's Cathedral from sliding into the Thames? 314 pages, there is a sticker on the inside front board and two light stamps on the ffep; two stamps on the half-title page, and a stamp on a second half-title page. Also library stamps on the bottom of two pages. There is a small brown spot on the horizontal page edges that goes through on page 237. Illustrated in black & white, there is very light wear to the corners and some scuffing on the back. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
- Bookseller: Nan's Book Shop
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- Bookseller Inventory #: 002741
- Format/binding: Hard Cover
- Book condition: Good
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Quantity available: 1
- Illustrator: Obrant, Susan
- Edition: First American Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Doubleday
- Place: Garden City NY
- Date published: 1971
- Keywords: FICTION LONDON YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
- Subjects:
JUVENILE FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stories;
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