Joan Aiken Smile Of The Stranger First and similar items

THE SMILE OF THE STRANGER. by Joan Aiken. New York: Warner Books, A Warner Communications Company, (1980). First paperback edition, first printing. "First printing January 1980" statement and first printing number code sequence 1 through 10 to the copyright page, $1.75 to the front cover. By the children's and literary historical novelist, and Edgar Allan Poe Award and Guardian Children's Fiction Prize winning author of the Dido featured series WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE. The author draws on her knowledge of history and employs her trademark skill of adventuresome suspense for this novel featuring a smart young lady who has to outwit a French mob, flee on a hot air balloon, and deal with falling in love. Minute rub to the lower spine edge, else very nearly fine, square, firm, very tight and unread in glossy stiff-card wraps with lovely air balloon cover art scene by Walter Popp, black and brown-burgundy titles to the front cover and spine, all page edges a nice yellow; original $1.75 price and code 94-144 still intact to the front cover and spine. Mass-market paperback; 271 pages; plus 1 page of ads to the rear. A well-preserved UNREAD mass-market paperback collectible. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT VINTAGE PAPERBACK BOOKS THANKS!