CHAD HANNA
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Thick 8vo, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on black label & "ladder" decoration on spine & gilt embossed figure of the boy Chad on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (uncllipped) depicting Chad lounging against a streetlamp painted by Forrest W. Orr, image repeated in sepia on pictorial endpapers, xi + 548 pages. Very Good / Very Good. Item #7891
Remarkable condition for this hefty wartime 1940 printing in a VG unclipped dust jacket with some wear and chipping. Slight uniform age-toning to paper. No marks by previous owners.
Walter "Wat" Dumaux Edmonds (1903 – 1998) was an American writer best known for historical novels. His Drums Along the Mohawk (1936) was adapted as a Technicolor film in 1939, directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert.
Bestselling Chad Hanna--about a country boy who worked a New York canal in the 1840's, but then joined the traveling circus--was adapted as a 1940 romantic film starring Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, and Dorothy Lamour. The book had been first serialized in The Saturday Evening Post under the title "Red Wheels Rolling."
Price: $35.00