About this title: Abbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, has died at the beginning of A White Bird Flying, leaving her china and heavy furniture to others and to her granddaughter Laura the secret of her dream of finer things. Grandma Deal's literary aspirations had been thwarted by the hard circumstances of her life, but Laura vows that nothing, no one, will deter her from a successful writing career. Childhood passes, and the more she repeats her vow the more life intervenes.
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Description: Acceptable. Book has some water damage, but book is still completely readable. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: D. Appleton, New York: London
Date Published: 1931
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Hardcover, no jacket. Ex-lib, rebound, usual marks, light wear. NO stains, tears, non-lib writing in tight book. Sewn in cloth, on boards. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Sun Dial Press
Date Published: 1944
Description: Good. This is a nice hardcover copy. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean and bright. Corners and edges slightly rubbed and bumped. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Binding: Hardbound
Publisher: Sun Dial Press
Date Published: 1944
Description: Good+ in Good-DJ; DJ has large chips & rips. The story of a prairie girl who, from an early age, was fired with a burning ambition to become a great writer read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: D. Appleton
Date Published: 1931-01-01
Description: Good. Blue hardcover has moderate cover wear, some soil, edges are bumped, some rubbing. Previous owner name inside. Pages are clean and Tight. SUMMARY: This is an early sequel to the novel A Lantern in her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich, set in the early 1900s in small-town Nebraska, it follows the childhood and early womanhood of Laura Deal. A (I) at the last page of this 335 page novel suggests that this is a first printing. read more
Description: Thorndike, c1931, LARGE PRINT edition, color pictorial hardcover; Ex-library with usual distinctions, faint staining on fore edge, pages bright, a solid copy, GOOD+. A nice copy you will be happy to own! read more
Description: Meredith, 1969 later printing, hardcover, pages bright, a solid; GOOD+ copy though it is ex-libary with usual distinctions, rear free end page removed, in a near VERY GOOD colorful dustjacket, in a clear mylar DJ cover, with flaps pasted to end papers. A nice copy you will be happy to own! read more
"A sequel to "A Lantern in Her Hand." It picks up where the first left off and follows Laura Deal throughout her life and the choices that she has to make. It was a quick read--very good, but not as great as the first. Still, it was neat to read the Nebraska history woven throughout the book."
"I really liked this book. I love a great love story. I also really liked how the book makes you think of the things that are really important in life. Great historical fiction."
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