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Condition: Good vintage condition with substantial wear to the original illustrated dust jacket, including large chips/loss at the upper front edge and spine, edge tears, rubbing, and smaller losses. The blue cloth hardcover remains intact. Pages show expected age toning, and the photos show pencil writing on an interior blank/endpaper area. No other writing/highlighting present. Please review photos closely for the jacket and overall condition. Rainbow on the Road by Esther Forbes, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1954. This copy is specifically marked Book Club Edition on the jacket flap and retains its wonderfully colorful period dust jacket. A charming piece of 1950s historical fiction centered on an itinerant portrait painter traveling through 19th-century New England. Vintage date basis: copyright page states Copyright 1954 and Printed in the U.S.A.