BEST OF HILLBILLY by Whittaker, Otto - 1969

Pocket Books, 1969. Good condition. Moderate cover wear. A solid reading copy. 95 cents cover price. Pocket Books #77081. Bound in the original pictorial wraps.. 1st Pocket Books Edition (so stated). Mass Market Paperback. Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 316 pages. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Pocket Books. Collectible - Acceptable. Signed Copy First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Signed by author on title page. Rear Hinge Cracked/breaking. (Humor, Wit, West Virginia Hillbilly)

Title, author publisher in black on spine. Seal an masthead of publication in black on front cover. Text unmarked but the book has been read. Slight wear top and bottom spine, little nick on spine front. Funny stuff from the 50's and early 60's as seen by rural America

Droke House (distributed by Grosset & Dunlap), 1968. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Clean hardcover stated First Edition in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Beige cloth boards with black lettering on cover, black title box and lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean. Clean black endpapers - Newspaper publisher's gift card lightly taped to front free endpaper. Clean dust jacket (slightest hint of light foxing) is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Wit and wisdom straight out of West Virginia--pure Americana to make you wonder, laugh and cry. Everything from whiskey stills and snakes to politics..

Signed First Edition, signed by Jim Comstock (1911-1996]. A collection of great humorous writing and cultural observations from Comstock's newspaper, the West Virginia Hill-Billy. In the back is a subscription form for the now defunct paper and a flyer loosely laid in to purchase Comstock's 20 year work, a 50 volume set called the West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.