The Goodhues of Sinking Creek

  • Hardcover
  • New York/London: Harper & Brothers, 1934
By Burnett, W.R.
New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. (quarter cloth over paper-covered boards; no dust jacket) [modest overall wear, slight bumping/cracking to lower corners, faint tide mark along bottom edge of front cover]. (woodcut illustrations) Short novel (88 pages), set in rural Ohio in the years just preceding the Civil War, about an anti-Abolitionist family that has a run-in with a game warden that escalates into murder and revenge. Originally published in Scribner's Magazine (November 1930) under the title "Hard Wood." .

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