The Iron Peacock by Clarke, Mary Stetson - 1966

New York: Viking Press, 1966. 251 pages. Bound in light blue cloth printed in brown with design on front, lettering on spine. Binding is firm and square, board show moderate wear to edges and extremities with colour loss along bottom edge, boards just exposed at two small spots, tiny fray at base of spine. Library stamps & notations to prelims, pocket and stamp on rear endpapers, pages clean and attractive. Stamp to bottom of textblock. Price-intact dust jacket ($3.95; clipped at bottom edge of flap) shows minor wear to extremities, sunning to spine, small pieces of non-yellowing tape on flaps and reverse of dust jacket. No spine label - ever. This is a reading copy that still will sparkle on your shelf. "Every thread in this book's fabric", says the author, "is spun from the stuff of which history is made." Around the actual Saugus Iron Works of colonial Massachusetts and the fate of the Scots captured at the Battle of Dunbar and indentured to the Iron Master, she has spun the story of Joanna, a young orphan refugee from England who is indentured by the captain of the ship that brought her to the Colony in order to recover her deceased father's debt for their passage. Excellent historical fiction for young people.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+/Very Good. Illus. by Robert MacLean. 5.5 x 8.5 in. (14cm x 21.5cm). Ex-Library.