Midnight Moon by Dorothy Lyons. Illustrated by W.C. Nims. Harcourt, Brace & Company. (1941). I believe this is a first printing with a '1' on the copyright page and 'Midnight Moon' being at the top of the list of 'Stories for Girls' on the back panel of the dust jacket. 6" x 8 1/2" 276 pages Hardcover with dust jacket. DUST JACKET: Many chips and tears. Not price-clipped with dj price of $2.00. Now protected by a removable mylar dj cover. BOOK: Moderate cover edge wear. There appears to be some sun-fading on the top of the spine. Previous owner book plate inside the front cover. Also book was gifted to the previous owner in ball-point pen as a Christmas present in 1942. Tanning to the endpapers inside the front and back covers. No other previous owner markings.  No tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. KG14a 

     "(Clara) Dean Marshall. Marshall wrote only 6 novels, the last published in 1951, and, were it not for a small but enthusiastic following, she would likely be all but forgotten today. The same could be said for a contemporary of Marshall's, another author of young adult novels I suspect many of you have never heard of - Dorothy Lyons.
      Lyons produced twice as many novels as Marshall, many of them brisk sellers in their day, but you'd never know it by Googling her. Good luck, in fact, finding any biographical information about her, let alone a website devoted to her work. Again, Lyons' legacy is kept alive, barely, by a small but enthusiastic following, members of which sometimes kick her books into three figures on eBay. Booksellers take note.
       BookThink's research department, headed by master librarian Pamela Palmer, was able to uncover at least something about Lyons. Born in Fenton, Michigan in 1907, she snagged a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1929 then pursued a lengthy secretarial career. She completed her first book, Silver Birch, while secretary of the American Red Cross in Hawaii and had the unsettling privilege of witnessing the attack on Pearl Harbor. More books followed during the 40s and 50s, though she never became what she had originally intended to be - a full-time writer supplying the young reading public with what she perceived to be a dearth of horse stories.
        Lyons' first love was indeed horses, and she wrote about them passionately in all 12 of her books. Her formula was short and sweet: "Girl wants horse, girl gets horse, girl loses horse or other important consideration, all turns out well."" bookthink.com/0086/86lyo.htm

       "The author is herself an expert rider and trainer of horses and she skillfully combines this experience with the ability to tell an absorbing story." - A blurb from the dust jacket.