1960 "First Edition"; cartoons by Kearney Egerton; autographed by Don Dedera inside cover, opposite inscription (pic); hardback; very good condition; dust jacket very good.
 
 
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This is a collection of Dedera's newspaper columns (Arizona Republic). Very entertaining, some very funny, many interesting characters. From the dust jacket: "John McPhee, who killed Santa Claus. Charlie Penn, who owns a whole town. Lillian Riggs, blind widow who ramrods 10 square miles of range. George Curtis, who sat at Doc Holliday's death bed. the dignity of a man who creates one cane basket a day; the dedication of a schoolmaster to rebuild his burned school; the courage of a doomed miner to provide for his family. " Great human interest stories; humorous and touching.