Ruby in the Smoke series-Dance of Thieves Riley wishes for his mom

Riley wishes for his mom to come back home

Illustrations by Lois Lenski

a well-known nursery tale

their happiness along

and talking for hours on a secret rooftop overlooking the city’s skyline

Ruby in the Smoke series-Dance of Thieves Riley wishes for his momPULLMAN, Philip. The Ruby in the Smoke. NY: Alfred A. Knopf [1987]. 12mo, [vi] 233pp. Blue half cloth stamped in silver on spine with red boards. A near fine copy with minute bumping at board edges, in publisher's original full color pictorial dust jacket (not price clipped, chipping around edges, with 1 2" open tear on bottom left of front panel). First US Edition. BEWARE THE SEVEN blessings . . . When she first utters these words, 16 year old Sally