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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1936). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Plum cloth, titles stamped in silver on spine; 302pp. Some darkening of endpapers at gutters; erasure to front endpaper, still a tight, Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped, somewhat faded on spine panel, Very Good.

Iowa author's somewhat hard-to-find sixth novel, portraying the Depression-era travails of a small-time Iowa general shopkeeper. Basis for the 1939 Leigh Jason film of the same title. HANNA 3381.