Claudie's Kinfolks (signed)

Boston and Toronto:: Little, Brown and Company, 1954. A clean, tight copy. Attractive Dust Jacket painting by Don Freeman wraps-around to include the spine. Pages are fresh and unmarked. SIGNED/ INSCRIBED by Anderson to author and playwright Isabel Leighton [THE ASPIRIN AGE 1919-1941; MY BOY FRANKLIN; SPRING AGAIN; WHERE AWAY, A MODERN ODYSSEY; WHITEMAN'S BURDEN; FAT GIRL; etc]. Laid-in is the mailing label to Leighton's Park Avenue address in New York. This book is the follow-up to Anderson's Texas classic: I AND CLAUDIE (one of A.C. Greene's FIFTY BEST BOOKS ON TEXAS). It reprises Clint Hightower and his sidekick Claudie, a pair of Gentle Grafters who, according to Greene, roam Texas "outsmarting bankers and oilmen, but often falling victim to their own softheartedness or their own cleverness." From the Dust Jacket: "From time to time, Claudie Hughes had talked a lot about his well-heeled kinfolk in Texas -- they were, as Clint Hightower put it, 'like a jack to his model-T mind... At their first stop a dispute over the number of bottles of ketchup a man is entitled to put into one fifteen-cent bowl of chili leads to a narrow escape.'" Bound in the original yellow boards, lettered/decorated in brown on the spine and front cover. . INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR.. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./Near VG jacket (price clipped). Illus. by Don Freeman jacket art.. 8vo. (x), 277pp..