Cornbread Aristocrat by Claud Garner 1951 Signet # 894
7 inch by 4.25 inch paperback book of 240 numbered pages. Pages are toned, binding is good. Covers show wear, with scuffs and creases. Lower back cover corner has a water stain. No marks or writing.
A rags-to-riches story of a young “river rat,” Toby Giles, from the Tidewater area of Virginia who migrated to Arkansas with a wagon train and settled in Washington. Giles began his journey in poverty, and with the use of his winsome personality, ambition, and some shady dealings, began his journey to capture the American Dream. The novel was published first in hardback by Creative Age Press of New York in 1950 and in 1952 as a Signet paperback.
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If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the earth. -Davy Crockett