Ironhead de Ellis, Melvin Richard - 1968

New York.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston., 1968. 2nd printing.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Jacket has rear loer 1-inch tidy tear, repaired by clear tape underside.. 1 Green cloth over boards; yellow small graphic, lower front: alligator. Yellow spine titles. Reinforced Library Binding. 152 p. 22 cm. Audience: Children/juvenile. Youth fiction classic set in Big Swampy, the heart of the Florida Everglades, where 17-year-old Doug Doucette is hunting for a large rattlesnake, if captured alive, will provide enough award money for his father's costly and urgently needed medical care. Author Mel Ellis, well-known for his novel "Run, Rainey, Run", had spent months in the Everglades researching and observing the habitat, well described here for his juvenile and adult audience.