MOLLOY, Jane

The Pigeoneers

B/w illus. by Elizabeth Converse, drawn from real life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. 8vo. Gray cloth, stamped in navy blue. 179 p. First Edition. Fine in d/j which is very good except for a 1" & a 2 1/2" tear at the top edge & a 1/2" chip at hte bottom edge of the front panel. [75893]

Young Nat is in the Orthepedic hospital facing a second operaton and hatng it. Then he makes friends with Mr. Lombard, a man who has a loft on the roof next for racng pigeons. Soon Nat and the other lads are having pigeon races, a pigeon loft on their fire escape and sendign messages home by pigeon post.

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