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Coward McCann, 1943. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1943. No Edition Remarks. 92 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Occasional thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light sunning to spine and edges. White marking to rear board. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Scuffing and light marking overall. Moderate tanning to spine and rear panel.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1942. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve and has edge rubbing and rear panel shows the age-toning. Limited Edition of 1250.. Happy Land is about Rusty Marsh, and the life he lived. It is about ordinary folks, and how they came to be brave. It is the record of a civilization which strengthens itself with Boy Scouts and bob-rides, with public high schools and neighborly kindnesses, with churches and drug stores and cornfields and Indian stories with the simple fare of Ameri-can life which once seemed dull and now holds bewitching beauty. This civilization must not perish from our land or from this earth. It will not perish while one Rusty Marsh is alive to fight for it. The basis for the 1943 film from the novel which appeared in serial form in the Saturday… Read More

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1943. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Text is clean. Cover shows normal wear. Dust jacket shows wear, with chipping at spine ends and several wrinkles to front panel. NAP. Warmly inscribed by author to actor Victor Kilian, whom MacKinlay was a fellow resident with in the experimental community "Free Acres" in New Jersey. ; This title was originially published in 1942 by The Curtis Publishing Company. Coward-McCann published 1250 copies in fall of 1942 (with a 1943 copyright date) for the author to use and gifts and thank you's. ; Signed by Author .