Fool's Parade

Published by World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York, 1969

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Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB

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306 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with red lettering to spine over green boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Davis Grubb's (The Night of the Hunter) eighth novel is set in the mining country of West Virginia in the spring of 1935. Mattie Appleyard, Johnny Jesus, and Lee Cottrill have just been released from the prison in Glory, West Virginia, and are being escorted out of town by Uncle Doc Council, state prison guard. Mattie has a check for $25,000 representing his savings and interest during forty-seven years imprisonment. And the three ex-cons intend to begin a legitimate enterprise together if they live to cash the check which happens to be payable only to Mattie at the bank in Glory. Uncle Doc who is half evangelist, half criminal, savors the task of preventing their return alive. Grubb's novel thereafter is the story of a chase, and its subtle beginnings with an undertone of ominous unpredictableness decelerates into madcap happenstance in which the ""characters"" become mere pawns of coincidence. These three, who are authentic outcasts, should become Glory's heroes, that evil should be routed and that even a boy and his dog are reunited. Condition: Spine heal lightly rubbed. Jacket corners and spine extremities rubbed, some edge chips and small creases else better than very good in like jacket.…

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Title
Fool's Parade
Author
Grubb, Davis (1919-1980)
Publisher
World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York
Publication year
1969
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
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We are one of the American leaders of out of print chess literature. We also specialize in anthopology, Colonial America, exploration and discovery. We deal in select literature. We consign in our area of specialty and are always interested in buying quality material from single titles to entire collections. Trade offers gladly considered. We have a large selection of rare and collectable chess literature and ephemera. We are exhibitors at both the Texas book fairs in Arlington in November and Austin in January.…

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