THE WIDE HOUSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the 1850's in a small town of the shores of Lake Erie in northwestern New York State - the story of a matriach, Janie Cauder, a widow who immigrated to the US from England with her four children, but also a story of the waves of intolerance - anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism - that swept over parts of America in the 1850's. 533 pages.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket (some general edgewear to the dj, loss of about 1/8 inch at the top of the spine, but overall quite bright and reasonably attractive. Relatively uncommon in the first edition in dust jacket.
Book ID: 38942
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