Runaway Mike Helme, Eleanor Horse Stories - All Others

1st Edition, hardcover in red cloth-covered boards. Spine has a slight forward lean, tips are still sharp. Two tiny specks of soil on the back board. 136pp text. B/W illustrated frontispiece and illustrations throughout the text. Mapped end papers. PON on fep. Vintage bookstore sticker present on front paste dwn. Untrimmed text is of heavy cardstock type leaves. No markings, tears, or soil inside. Original dj is unclipped with price present, chips, rubbing, color loss, moderate soil on white background, but still displays very well in new mylar. Miss Eleanor Helme's books are being recognized more and more enthusiastically as classics of their kind, headed so far, in the estimation of many of her admirers, by the delightful "Mayfly." Readers of that admirable tale will welcome the reappearance of certain of it's characters, notably the grey pony Mayfly herself, in "Runaway Mike" But "Runaway Mike" is by no means a sequel: It is an entirely new and original story, telling of the adventures of Mike, the circus-boy, the black colt Pitch, and Toss the sheep dog- an irresistible trio who could only have been created by Eleanor Helme. "Runaway Mike" is the best book Miss Helme has ever written, and Mr. Ivester Lloyd's illustrations are a perfect accompaniment.