This Body the Earth
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1935. Near Fine / Very Good+. Item #33384
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); viii,422pp. Very light edge wear, dust jacket spine panel toned, brief foxing to cloth margins, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy.
Scarce novel of the Great Depression set in the author's native North Carolina amongst a community of tenant farmers and sharecroppers.
"[T]he story is a more compelling argument for Federal financing of small farm purchasing than any broadcast so far by any AAA publicist" (the Richmond Times Dispatch, Dec. 22, 1935). Green was in fact best known as a playwright, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1926 play "In Abraham's Bosom."
Hanna 1491.
Price: $250.00