First edition of Christopher Jarrett of New Plymouth by Winona Strachan. A boy from the streets of London sails to the New World to find his kidnapped sister.
Written by Winona Strachan. Illustrated by Paula Hutchison. Stated first edition, 1957, signed by author. E. P. Dutton & Co., publishers. (Out of print.)
From the front flap:
"Sailing into the harbor aboard the shallop to which he had been transferred mid-ocean, the settlement of New Plymouth presented a disheartening prospect to twelve-year-old Christopher Jarrett. This was to be his new home, through no choice of his own! Three years after the Mayflower had sailed back to England, leaving its pitifully small but determined group of passengers on the shore of the New World, the settlement they had built in the wilderness appeared to offer little to a child of the London gutters. Cocky and resentful, Christpher struggled to adapt himself to life in Governor Bradford's household, his thoughts constantly on his younger sister Betsy. Ever since that night in London when she had been snatched from him, as he fought with their assailants, he had known that if he ever found her it would be as a bound-girl in Virginia...
"Although this is primarily the story of Christopher Jarrett and his search which leads him to find not only his sister but himself as well, it is far more than that. It is the story of the first stumbling steps in the growth of America, recreated in absorbing and authentic detail."
Winona Strachan (1918 - 1996) was a librarian and historian in Duxbury, MA, and also wrote Johnny Codliner: A Story of the American Revolution.
From the Duxbury Clipper, 1/20/1966: goo.gl/N2heXL
Condition*: Very good/Good. Signed by author. Dust jacket: chipped along top edge; open tear on top edge; minor scuffing on one edge of spine; small closed tear in the lower right corner. Jacket was originally designed with front and back flaps trimmed at the top and bottom corners. Stamp-sized bookplate of original bookstore on front flyleaf: Westwinds Bookshop, Duxbury MA. (Acquired from original owner.)
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