Boston: Little Brown, 1934. dj. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the $10,000 Atlantic Prize Novel Award for 1934. 1934 was the 3rd year that the $10,000 prize was awarded and Samuel Rogers was the first American writer to win it (previous winners were de la Roche's Jalna and Ann Bridge' Peking Picnic - in 1930 no award was given; in this year, 1934, over 1300 manuscripts were submitted.)