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CHAD HANNA
by Edmunds, Walter D
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Thick 8vo, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on black label & "ladder" decoration on spine & gilt embossed figure of the boy Chad on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (uncllipped) depicting Chad lounging against a streetlamp painted by Forrest W. Orr, image repeated in sepia on pictorial endpapers, xi + 548 pages. Remarkable condition for this hefty wartime 1940 printing in a VG unclipped dust jacket with some wear and chipping. Slight uniform age-toning to paper. No marks by previous owners.<br/> <br/> Walter "Wat" Dumaux Edmonds (1903 - 1998) was an American writer best known for historical novels. His Drums Along the Mohawk (1936) was adapted as a Technicolor film in 1939, directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert.<br/> <br/> Bestselling Chad Hanna--about a country boy who worked a New York canal in the 1840's, but then joined the traveling circus--was adapted as a 1940 romantic film starring Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, and Dorothy Lamour. The book had been first serialized in The Saturday Evening Post under the title "Red Wheels Rolling."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7891
- Title
- CHAD HANNA
- Author
- Edmunds, Walter D
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- film, canal, country boy, romance, circus, film, fonda, john ford,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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- Gilt
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