Happy Land, A Story

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 Evening Post and Reader's Digest, has been turned into a strong tear-jerker mainly through the keen production given by Kenneth Macgowan and directorial skill of Irving Pichel. Combined efforts of this pair, plus a trim writing job, sets off a string of performances topped by Don Ameche, Frances Dee, Harry Carey and Richard Crane.

Published for friends of the Author for the Holiday Season December, 1942 Ref: fantasticfiction; variety