[publisher: Doubleday, NY] Hardcover First Edition Lovely 1929 prt (probable 2nd/3rd prt) of the 1928 NEWBERY HONOR winner. 1929 date on title page. Yellow cloth with illus endpapers. DJ is good with original $2.00 price, large chip on bottom rear panel. No medal on DJ. A Nantucket Quaker community during the War of 1812 provides the background for the story of a young girl who becomes involved with an outcast named Sammie. Tale of brave folk who lived by hunting the whale. Black silhouette illus. by Maginel Wright Barney. 314pp. SCAN AVAILABLE.
[durham, NC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1927]