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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard Company, New York. 1957. Hardcover. Weekly Reader/Children's Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; toning to pages from cheap book club paper. DJ: Very Good: NOT Price Clipped ($3.00); chipping and light wear across top edge of DJ. Blue paper over boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine; native boy picture on front board. 209 pp 8vo. This book is the story of Paulo, a little boy, who was the sole survivor of a massacre of his quiet island village, and brought to another island by a trader-friend who finds him there alone. The only thing he owns is a talisman necklace that was his mother's. People on the island are kind to him, but the local priest is suspicious of him, and the boy comes to feel that he is a burden to his foster family until the necklace does its magic and he begins to make friends through his telling American children stories and history of life in old Hawaii. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. Reisie Lonette (illustratore).…