The Big Barn

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1930. Advance reading copy. Paperback. Very Good. 333pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Wraps. Mild wear to the extremities; light reading creases to spine; covers a bit cocked. Ex-libris Carter Burden, the late American politician and principal owner of "The Village Voice." The author's second novel. A saga of life in northern New York. Set in the canal valleys of 1850s New York. Edmonds won the Newbery Medal in 1942 for "The Matchlock Gun.