Danny by William Cunningham (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. First Edition. Boards in blue cloth with silver-stamped spine. Minor spot of soiling on top board. Minor spots of soiling on endpapers; name of department store rubber stamped on top edge of ffep; light soiling on a few pages, else interior clean and unmarked. Jacket illustrated by Paul Galdone. Dust jacket shows light rubbing on spine; not price clipped ($3.00); in an archival mylar sleeve. 217 pages. Capturing the life of a small town in Oklahoma in the 1920s, this is a boy's detective adventure which tells the story of Danny Fielding after he stumbles across the body of a murdered man. An uncommon copy of this juvenile novel by the acclaimed Oklahoma writer William Meredith Cunningham (1901-1967), co-authored by his wife Sara Brown Cunningham. Earlier in his career, in the 1930s, he had served as state director of Oklahoma's Federal Writers' Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, and then moved to Washington D.C. to serve as the assistant to the national director of the Federal Writers' Project.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Only. 8vo. Very Good with minor staining, some wrinkling. $3.00 on flyleaf.