Barefoot Boy With Cheek by Max Shulman - 1943: Pictures by Will Crawford

Philadelphia: The Blackiston Company , 1943. 1943 on Copyright page. . Hardcover. Near Good. By the American novelist, humorist, creator of the TV and Movie screen character. Dobie Gillis, author of : The Tender Trap : A Comedy.....Rally Round The Flag, Boys....The Feather Merchants.... The Zebra Derby.... Sleep Til Noon. His First novel, a funny satire on college life,written while he was in college : " Barefoot Boy With Cheek " The fun begins with protagonist, off to his first day at Air university after a breakfast of Johnson grass and suet from a slaughtered brood cow slaughtered by his " pore old igerant mother ", dumber than Edward, the ole hound-dog layin' over there by the stove " ..... With many illustrations in the 22 Chapters - With Asa Hearthrug ending up linking up with " ecstacy " - the elemental, untutored Lodestone : " I been waiting a long time for you " , Lodestone said... Yes, Lodstone, I breathed - And " I'm hungry " she said. Nothing had changed...... A 70 year old, uncommon Max Shulman first book. Cover wear on the edges, otherwise in good conditon for its age. Indented decoration on maroon-colored book, with gilt lettering on spine.(5 3/8 X 7 5/8 ) 207 pages. No dust jacket. Prior owner name on front end page. A wild and laugh-out-loud memoir of American culture, and college life, in the late 1930's.... The feminine martyr, Yetta Samovar, telling Asa that the likes of him, and his " frat. " brothers will have fun in the salt mines when the working class gets tired of supporting his kind .... And later telling him he's just dangerous because he is just only " politically undeveloped ", and not a fascist, and telling him his fraternity " Alpha Cholera ", is a waste of time and he should join her in meeting with the Minnesota chapter of " he Subversive Elements League." - Is priceless and prophetic !

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