Maurois, Andre; Lafayette in America North Star Series; Hardcover; Ex-Library; Boston; Houghton Mifflin; 1960; 1st Edition (?); 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Very Good; "Excellent, enticing, exquisite, charming, richly factual, good history, impressive, superb, compellingly dramatic, fresh and vigorous" are all words national publications have used to describe the North Star series, Some of the best-known authors in America write, for younger readers, books that are really informative and exciting. Taken together, these books form a library of high literary quality that will provide a young reader with a comprehensive knowledge of our past. Lafayette in America (North Star Book #15). This is the true story of oneof the best friends our country ever had. Young, wealth, and high in the French aristocracy, the Marquis de Lafayette abandoned his life of ease in France to cross the Atlantic and join George Washington's struggling little army. He was wounded at the Brandywine, shared the bitter winter at Valley Forge and our final victory over the British at Yorktown. America will never cease to be grateful. This book is in Very Good condtion with a tight binding and mostly clean crisp pages. Outside cloth covers show some minor wear to include new library binding tape on the outside corners and top and bottom of the outside spine. This is an ex-library books with the expected library markings.