FUN WITHOUT MONEY

New York: Pageant Press, 1964. Octavo, original golden yellow cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Forty-nine short stories set in various parts of America at the turn-of-the-century, folksy in tone, generally very short, with a first-person narrator. Some are tall tales. Moffett was born on a small Delaware farm in 1881 and at age eighteen commenced a career in railroad signal work the spanned more than fifty years and took him throughout the country. According to Erskine Caldwell, "a book of wisdom with humor." A nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket with shelf wear at edges and some dust soiling. (#113270) (Inventory #: 113270)