A 1951 First Edition - Book excellent - Wrapper has in spine area about a fingernail size bit of paper-loss - Same edition Google image used - Wrapper now in removable plastic sleeve - First edition hard back binding in publisher's original raspberry cloth covers, silver lettering to spine - 320 pg. >>> It is difficult to imagine shy, gentle, soft eyed little deer as ever being dangerous. In Danger from Deer, Vicki Baum created a monstrous character, whose tiny stature and doe-eyed beauty belies her true nature. - Mrs Ann Ambros is a tiny, frail looking elderly lady, who around the end of the second world war, is aided by a porter as she steps up into a railway car in California. Aboard the train she is further aided by the family lawyer and his friend a Major Ryerson, as she impatiently awaits the arrival of her step-daughter Joy .....
