8th printing; Clean, tight, unmarked; light edge wear to upper and lower edges of dust jacket - a few small chips and tears at corners - price clipped; colours of dust jacket are lightly tanned but still bright and unfaded; purple background with light blue titles; picture of two canoers approaching each other on a lake with birch trees in the foreground - back is picture of birch trees; rust cloth covers with silver titles; name on ffep; very minimal general wear; Rarely has a novelist woven together a drama of nature and human beings with such singular beauty and depth of understanding. The reader hangs as breathless on the fate of the barnacle goose - the strange one of Barra - as on the destiny of the two people for whom the great-hearted bird symbolizes their fears and their hope. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Hardcover Dodd, Mead & Company 1959 New York, NY
