Furrow's End: An Anthology of Great Farm Stories

New York: Greenberg: Publisher. Very Good. (c.1946). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [lightly shelfworn, slight bumping to upper corners, some fading to spine cloth, small white scrape mark on spine]. A collection of stories selected, as Louis Bromfield puts it in his introduction, to "give a warm and fairly complete picture of American rural life as it is today in a rapidly changing world." Contents: "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" (Leo Tolstoi; I thought this was about American life?); "The Pomegranate Trees" (William Saroyan); "Paul Bunyan's Cornstalk" (Esther Shephard); "Early Sowing" (O.E. Rölvaag); "That Fine Place We Had Last Year" (Roderick Lull); "That Water is Ruining My Land and Yours Too" (Angus McDonald); "Arkansas" (Raymond Weeks); "'My Ninety Acres'" (Louis Bromfield); "Ann and the Crow" (Johannes V. Jensen); "A Crop of Beans" (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings); "High Tension" (Harry G. Huse); "A Shepherd's Life" (E.B. White); "Mr. Simpson Makes a Sale" (Jim Thompson); "The Honey House" (Mary King O'Donnell); "The Colt and the Pearl" (Weldon Stone); "A Thresher's Tale" (Rudolph Umland); "The Widow's Way" (Henry Exall); "Some Things Are Private" (George Sessions Perry); "Squatter Woman" (Jesse Stuart). Each story is accompanied by a one-page biography of its author. Note that the Jim Thompson story is an excerpt from his second published novel, "Heed the Thunder." .