Rosa and Randy.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1948. Hardcover. Illustrations by Mabel Woodbury.8vo. Orange cloth with black lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 160pp. Frontispiece, line drawings. Very good/very good. A few small page stains near rear to otherwise near fine volume; jacket a tad edgeworn; front flyleaf ownership signature. Item #51015
Handsome, tight first edition of this young adult fiction set on a California cattle ranch about "Rosa, a fiery-tempered little girl who lived on the neighboring ranch," wwo "proved a good friend to Randy and his family even though for generations a feud had existed between the two ranches." Eyre boldly signs the title page in full in blue ballpoint. Eyre (1901-70) cranked out many children's and young adult novels and a series of popular thrillers starting in 1942.
Price: $45.00