Taps for Private Tussie

E.P. Dutton & Co., New York. 1943. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Winner of the 1943 Thomas Jefferson Award. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light sunfading to top edges of boards. DJ: Very Good; light suntoning to spine; toning to DJ; light wear to head, tail, and tips. Green cloth boards and spine with red lettering on spine and front board with picture of mountain men in red on front board. Tinted textblock top. Artwork by Thomas Hart Benton the famous Midwest painter. 303 pp 8vo. Written by a product of the Kentucky Hills, this story is told by Sid about his Hill Country family who have the problem of not working and getting the relief money or working in poverty. The death of his uncle in WWII and the survivor's money brings out all the freeloaders to the new rental house. This dream is short lived and poverty soon returns. The twist is that Private Tussie does return (mistaken burial) and Sid finds out that his aunt is really his mother - thus Sid has a father and a mother and the father is a changed man from the war and is now industrious and works for wages setting a proper example for Sid. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.…