Doubleday, Toronto, 1974, 1^st ed.  ISBN 0-385-00384-6.  Hard cover, 225 pages.  Blue and cream cloth over boards; light corner and spine end wear; binding sound.  Dust jacket with price intact has edge and cover wear, short edge tears; sunning/toning.  Gift inscription on FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked; some foxing on top page block.  ‘Here are warm, gently humorous stories of growing up poor during the Depression in a small town.  In that time of “thin soup and creamed-anything on toast,” boys would fill their days trading bubble gum hockey cards, tossing pennies, going to school, or just plain hanging around McCracken’s Landing waiting for the steamboat to come in. … This is a fine, funny book about the ‘30s – a time when just getting your next meal was no joke, but when life could make you laugh.’ (from flaps)