Author: O'HARA, MARY
Title: My Friend Flicka
Description: Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1941. Hardcover. Illustrated by John Steuart Curry. B & W and Color; 5 1/4 x 8 1/4; 285 pages; Hard cover is green cloth with faded gold lettering in red box, on spine. Light rubbing, sunning, scuffing, bumping to covers. No DJ. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. B/w illustrations by John Steuart Curry, with a color frontispiece. This is the classic story of an 11 year old boy, Ken, living on a ranch in Wyoming, where his parents, Nell and Rob, breed carefully selected horses, from their top stallion, Banner. Ken wants a foal of his own, to make and shape as his young horseman's heart, and abililities, will let him. This is a tale of life, growing up, families, living in the mountains of Wyoming. An excellent story, for a reader of any age, as are the 2 sequels in this trilogy.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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