The Tall Hunter.

New York:: Harper & Brothers, 1942.. Later Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: beige cloth with black vignette and text; this is an EX-LIBRARY copy with all the usual markings, including call letter on book spine; library pocket on the rear free endpaper; front and rear endpapers have darkened areas; other than the discolorations on endpapers and library markings, in Very Good condition. The jacket is Very Good; the jacket is price clipped, but probably done at publisher or distributor level as it has a publisher's price sticker at bottom flap.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Description: Drawings by Rafaello Busoni (the jacket art is not credited, by appears to be by the same artist). The publisher's blurb reads: ''After many years as a hunter and a trapper, Richard Hammond married Ellen May, and settled down. But one terrible day Richard returned home and found that Ellen May had been taken captive in an Indian raid. From that time on, with a heart full of bitterness and hate, Richard searched for his wife. He killed many Indians in revenge. Still he searched, his hope nearly gone, when he met Johnny Appleseed That kind, gentle stranger who planted seeds in the wilderness tried to sow in Richard's bitter heart the seeds of understanding and forgiveness. It was Johnny Appleseed, friend to all men, who finally found Ellen May for Richard and left them both with a gift of peace.'' The only printed date is the 1942 copyright; Harper's code ''B-L'' indicates a printing date of February, 1961.