Book Title - Sugarfoot
Book Author - Clarence Budington Kelland
Book Publisher/Year - Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London / 1942 Stated First Edition
Book Condition - No DJ. Boards are solid and overall clean with light age - upper right front corner has two dots of white paint - spine has rubbing with some loss of clarity to titles - no writing - pages 63 to 74 have dots of staining (looks old and stable but this is the books major condition issue) Light signs of reading and a tear at very lower left corner of rear pastedown. Book is Good minus to Good because of stains. Should be thought of for reading and reference only I think Please refer to images.
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synopsis - Good workmanlike job of action and color, in a story of pioneer Arizona, after the Civil War. Jackson Redan, of gentle Southern blood, learns the hard way when he comes to Prescott. His mentors are a wise Jewish merchant, a far seeing saloon owner, an outspoken landlady, and his enemy, Stint, given to lawlessness and ruthlessness. Their quarrel comes to a head over Reva, singing in the saloon, but wanting a respectable life, which ""Sugarfoot"" can give her once he has beaten Stint and proved his right to be a big man in the community.
Clarence Budington "Bud" Kelland (July 11, 1881 – February 18, 1964) was an American writer. He once described himself as "the best second-rate writer in America".
Although largely forgotten now, Kelland had a long career as a writer of fiction and short stories, stretching from 1913 to 1960. He was published in many magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post and The American Magazine. A prolific writer, his output included sixty novels and some two hundred short stories. His best known juvenile works were the Mark Tidd series and the Catty Atkins series, while his best known adult work was the Scattergood Baines series. Other notable adult books by Kelland include Conflict (1920), Rhoda Fair (1925), Hard Money (1930), Arizona (1939), and Dangerous Angel (1953). Kelland was the "literary idol" of the teenaged John O'Hara. He was referred to in a 1995 installment of Harlan Ellison's television commentary, Harlan Ellison's Watching for the program Sci-Fi Buzz, wherein Ellison laments what he perceives as a prevailing cultural illiteracy.
Kelland's work resulted in some thirty Hollywood movies,including Speak Easily (1932) starring Buster Keaton. Opera Hat, a serial from The American Magazine, was the basis for the film Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) starring Gary Cooper. Opera Hat later was turned into the short-lived television series Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1969–70), and the movie Mr. Deeds (2002). One of Kelland's best-known characters was featured in the Scattergood Baines series of six films from 1941 to 1943, starring Guy Kibbee.
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