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The ghost of opalina or nine lives 1631680269 for sale online. The ghost of a persian cat who lived two hundred years before, opalina relates the history of the house to the finley children, beginning in 1750, when it was owned by the trumbull family. The ghost of opalina, or nine lives, by peggy bacon. A book about a cat named ophelia name that book librarything. Slightly smaller book, shiny pinkish cloth badly soiled, an ink stain at top front tip, a tiny red mark at top front left, green color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 85 pages. The ghost of opalina, or nine lives by peggy bacon. The ghost of the cat opalina appears to the modern day children in the nursery of the old house the new family has just moved into and the cat tells the children the stories of the past generations of people who occupied the house.
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Bacon, peggy 18951987american artist and illustrator, much admired for the wit, charm and plainspoken honesty in her drypoint caricatures and satirical glimpses of new yorkers. The ghost of opalina, or nine lives kindle edition by bacon, peggy, bacon, peggy. The ghost of opalina by peggy bacon 2nd printing vintage and rare. I have been waiting most of my life for this book to come back into print.
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