Little Fishers and their Nets by Pansy and Her Friends

Little Fishers and their Nets

by Pansy and Her Friends

(Isabella Macdonald Alden)

Ward, Lock & Co, c1900, gilded edges, decorated boards, hardcover

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, missing introductory and title pages, cracking hinge (see photographs)

“Thirteen year old Nettie Decker is called home after having lived with another family for 7 years, to find that her father is a drunkard and her family is in poverty and hopelessness because of it. Her stepmother has given up, and her stepbrother is headed down the same path as her father. As she struggles with the reality of her home life, she meets a friendly neighbor boy, with whom she pledges to do all she can to save her father and stepbrother..”