Mandy by Julie Andrews Edwards [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING / 1973]

Mandy by Julie Andrews-Edwards [yes, that Julie Andrews!] with illustrations by Judith Gwyn Brown

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1973] BANTAM PATHFINDER

Mega rare vintage paperback printing.

Book is in very good reading condition.  Cover shows visible wear and creasing, as well as a spot of sticker damage on back.   

Text block is clean, binding is tight and pages read like new.  

The debut novel from film and broadway star, Julie Andrews. 

Ten-year-old Mandy feels lost among the thirty children who live in the old stone orphange. She dreams of a home of her own, a place where she belongs. When Mandy climbs over the high orphanage wall to explore the outside, she is lucky enough to find a tiny deserted cottage hidden in the forest. With a few "borrowed" items, the cottage becomes a refuge. To guard her secret, Mandy even lies -- but when she falls terribly sick, no one knows where she is. No one, that is, except for a special admirer she didn't know she had.