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This Is My Island (inscribed by the author)

Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1963. va. presumed first printing. Warmly inscribed by the author and dated March, 1964 on the rfront free endpaper. Fine, bit of offsetting to the endpapers. In very good dust jacket. Novel set om Brehao. one of the Channel Islands, during World War II. Sylvai, the protagonist, awakes one morning to find that a German warship has anchored in the harbor; her husband rounds up the able-bodied men to hide in one of the caves while advising Sylvia to treat the invaders civilly. She passes messages to the caves and the German Commandant tries to force his attentions on her. Fine. Item #E22192

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