The Shadow of My Hand
- New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); orange cloth spine over light blue paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in green on spine; dustjacket; 409pp; illus. Light shelf-soil to covers, with faint tanning to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, with painting by John Rogers Cox, unclipped (priced $4.95), with tanning to spine panel and flaps, and tiny chips and tears to spine ends and extremities; Very Good.
"Cameron Johnson, veteran of World War II and Korea, returns to his home town of Buffalo Coulee, N. Dak., to re-establish contact with his past and his native soil. He takes a job on the large Red River Valley farm of John Durham, hoping to stay on as a renter, falls in love with Millie Shaw, Durham's sister-in-law, and finds the course of love anything but smooth because of Durham's proprietary interest in Millie and his insane jealousy of any man who looks at her. When Durham learns of Cam's relationship with her, he tries to kill the young man, only to be killed in the ensuing fight" (see Meyer, The Middle Western Farm Novel, p.204). MEYER p.204. [84054].
"Cameron Johnson, veteran of World War II and Korea, returns to his home town of Buffalo Coulee, N. Dak., to re-establish contact with his past and his native soil. He takes a job on the large Red River Valley farm of John Durham, hoping to stay on as a renter, falls in love with Millie Shaw, Durham's sister-in-law, and finds the course of love anything but smooth because of Durham's proprietary interest in Millie and his insane jealousy of any man who looks at her. When Durham learns of Cam's relationship with her, he tries to kill the young man, only to be killed in the ensuing fight" (see Meyer, The Middle Western Farm Novel, p.204). MEYER p.204. [84054].