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H U E
Y, T H E E N G I N
E E R
James E. Beard, St. Helene,
California, 1960.
50 pp.
With wood engravings by Mallette
Dean
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Jesse Stuart’s Huey, the
Engineer, the fifth of his books
for young readers,
was originally published in Esquire
Magazine in 1937. The book, written
in Stuart’s typical colloquial
narrative, provides a glimpse of the
heyday and gradual disappearance of a
local short-line railway.
The book was issued in a limited edition of 585
copies with a plain brown-paper dust jacket. It also
included a folded facsimile from The
Official Railway Equipment Register of
1925. The book has become quite a
collector’s item, because of its small
edition; copies with Stuart’s autograph
can fetch over
$500. The copy in the Jesse Stuart
Collection, was signed by Jesse Stuart during Marshall University
Libraries’ Jesse Stuart Day on February 18, 1975.
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