Mountain Courage

Garden City N.Y.: Doubleday, 1957. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Octavo in green DJ, color illus to front DJ, 143 pages, b&w illustrations Extremely mild rubbing to corners, faint soiling to front board and fore-edges, exceedingly gentle rubbing to spine head and foot, very gentle fraying wear to DJ spine head and foot, very mild rubbing to DJ corners, light fading and soiling to DJ, less than quarter inch closed tear to front DJ edge, else very good(+) in very good(+) DJ. in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover.

Inscribed and signed by author. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. Thirteen-year-old Forrest Judson becomes lost in the mountains. Contents: "Do you think I'm a baby?" -- Deer -- "Find my son" -- "Get out the bloodhounds" -- Follow the stream -- Mountain misery -- Cloudburst -- "If he got through--" -- "Only a man--" Mountains -- Juvenile fiction.