Taps for Private Tussie

Stuart, Jesse

ISBN 10: 9997409140 / ISBN 13: 9789997409140

Published by E.P. Dutton and Co., New York, 1943

About this Item

First Edition stated, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo in rust cloth w/black titles, deckled vertical page edge. Near Fine/No DJ. Cloth lightly scuffed, 1/2 title page has 1" chip at top, else Fine and unmarked. 253pp; illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton.

Seller Inventory # 043748

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Taps for Private Tussie
• Publisher: E.P. Dutton and Co., New York
• Publication Date: 1943
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9997409140
• ISBN 13: 9789997409140
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: Thomas Hart Benton
• Edition: First Edition (stated).
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Military

About this title

Synopsis

Book is solid but has no Dust Jacket and has age related wear (slight staining) on covers & pages are slightly discolored. Name written in ink on first page. there is an embossed stamp on fly leaf from "PATTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY". Book is actually in Good shape overall. LOC.65

From the Publisher

Taps for Private Tussie won the Thomas Jefferson Southern Award in 1943, and was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection that year, also. This tale about the Tussie family is a brimming mountain spring of hilarious fun and folklife. Yet never was a book read more eagerly to see what in the world will happen next.

This tale is not just a story of poor white Southern mountaineers on relief. There is something universal about it. It reveals an attitude towards human life and its problems, found in people, places, and times that have no connection with Southern mountaineers.