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DON'T YOU CRY FOR ME, John Weld, hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, first edition ("A" on copyright page), 1940. BOOK CONDITION: good. The text block is in near fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. Pages are age-toned. No bookplate or signature of a prior owner. Not a library book or remainder. The brown cloth boards are in fairly good condition (bumped spine with some faded spots, front and back covers have faded areas along edges and some spotting, somewhat bowed boards). The dust jacket is in fairly good condition (chipping and small tears along edges, age-toned interior, faded spine). 8 ½ x 6, 494 pages, 25 ounces XX [From the dust jacket] Asa Harper joined the wagon train as it wound its slow way out of Independence, Missouri, on the first stage of the long, perilous journey to California. Harper's belongings were few. They were packed, mostly, in the saddlebags of his mare, Belle. But he was twenty-six, strong, healthy, willing to work, and it was 1846, and Asa Harper, with countless others, was "for California!" So Harper packed his stuff in the wagon of George Lansing, frail, forty-two-year-old school teacher, and Nell, his beautiful young wife, and a little later met Cap'n Daniel Johnson, leader of the train. A few days before, Cap'n Dan had killed a man in Independence, a man who needed killing, but only Asa Harper knew that this man was his own father, and that he had sworn to his sisters and brother and their mother that he would exact satisfaction from his father's slayer. Besides Asa Harper, the Lansings, and Cap'n Dan there are scores of other characters, each vividly realized, but it is from the lives of these four people, in the main, that the incredibly rich tapestry of Mr. Weld's novel is woven. Greater even than the characters themselves is the background against which their story is told, that epic migration of the 1840s which saw thousands upon thousands of Americans braving the terrors of almost untracked deserts and mountains to reach the Promised Land of California. Here the reader lives the daily life of the wagon train with all its lusty humor, adventure, drama and tragedy. XX [Wikipedia] John Weld (February 24, 1905 - June 14, 2003) was an American newspaper reporter and writer born in Birmingham, Alabama. He had an early career in Hollywood in the 1920s as a stunt double for Tom Mix, Buck Jones and other stars. He wrote about those days in his 1991 book Fly Away Home: Memoirs of a Hollywood Stunt Man. During the late 1920s Weld was a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune in Paris and the New York American and New York World in New York City. He was married to the journalist and writer Carol Weld from 1927 to 1932. Among Weld's books are DON'T YOU CRY FOR ME, a 1940 novel based on the Donner party; the autobiographical Young Man in Paris (1985); and September Song, a 1998 biography of his friend, actor Walter Huston. Weld wrote screenplays for Columbia and Universal; served as director of publications for the Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, Michigan, and owned Ford dealerships in Laguna and San Clemente, California. He co-published the Laguna Beach Post with his second wife, Katy. He died in Monarch Beach, Dana Point, California. N° de ref. del artículo 002720
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