Sweepstakes

  • Hardcover
  • New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c.1941)
By Greenaway, Emily
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Good+. (c.1941). Reprint. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [ex-library book, faint dampstain to upper left section of front cover, library bookplate and stamp on front pastedown, date-due slip/pocket/card on rear endpapers (showing no checkout activity whatsoever)]. "A story of a group of ordinary people in a typical American town. Each of them buys a ticket in the sweepstakes. By the time the winners are drawn, some have forgotten just why they bought their tickets. But meanwhile they have unconsciously achieved what they were after." (Quoted from the dustjacket of another copy of the book; NO dustjacket is present on this copy.) Quite scarce in any edition. .

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