Land Of Ponies Oliver, Marjorie M. Horse Stories - All Others

1st Edition, hardcover in red paper covered boards with a couple of tiny specks of soil, gilt title, spine ends lightly brushed but tips still sharp. Page-block is foxed, top edge dyed red. 145pp text is crisp and tight. End pps are starting to fox, gift dedication to previous owner, "To Diana.1953". No other writing, highlighting, or soil inside. Dj is a professional reproduction, unclipped, starting to fox on white background, has a few tiny chips, but displays well in new mylar. Wake and Torfreda Conway, and their friend Catherine, are in luck. Instead of going back to school at the end of the summer holiday they suddenly find themselves in quarantine (the twins have scarlet fever), and on their way to Dartmoor-'Land of Ponies' 'Anything might happen here', says Torfreda when first she sees the lonely, open moors. And before the children go to sleep on the first night of their stay at Sunnydew Farm they have already met crippled Jan, who, they learn later, claims to be the owner of a nearby tin-mine, and have heard an old story of a smugglers secret passage from this mine to Telsworthy Manor. How the children buy a Dartmoor pony, how they make friends with Jan and find the secret passage, how they help the owner of the Manor to get back his stolen precious stone, the 'Moon of Babylon', and how their unexpected holiday is filled with good companionship, good riding, and the best of adventures in the open air- are themes of another exciting story by Marjory Mary Oliver, who has already written two stories about Wake, Torfreda and Catherine: 'Riding Days in Hook's Hollow', and 'Horseman's Island', 'Land of Ponies' makes a third which will delight all children who have the first two books, and will make many friends for the Conway children among those readers who have not previously met them.