Library of American civilization -- LAC 40005.

A friendship between a boy and a ghost in a fishing village in Denmark. The boy is a city orphan and the ghost--the shapeshifting spirit of a dead sailor-- becomes his guardian angel to preserve his innocence.

Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms from 1914 is a poetic exploration of words - clustered, juxtaposed, redefined and played off one another - to subterfuge their common meanings, which Stein felt had become watered down, and to re-infuse them with expressive force.