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Storm Child: A Three Fold Novel
193727068New York: John C. Yorston Publishing Co 1937. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm; green cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt to spine and front cover; dustjacket; 321pp; illus. Beginning oxidation to spine gilt with a touch of discoloration to surrounding spine cloth; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 with light edgewear and gentle sunning to spine; Near Fine. Novelized version of the real-life events surrounding the birth of Georgia Norwood the first child born at the Boston Lighthouse in Boston Harbor. During a spring storm in 1932 Georgia's mother Josephine Norwood believed the birth was imminent and a doctor was summond from a nearby town. It took an hour and a half for the boat to land at the island in heavy seas and though Georgia wasn't born until a week later in calm weather. she would be forever known as "Storm Child. John C. Yorston Publishing Co unknown books
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