The Fields

New York, NY: Bantam Books. Very Good+. 1975. First Edition Thus; Second Printing. Paperback. Very Good+ to Near Fine in Wraps: shows very faint foxing to the top edge and fore-edge; faintest creasing at lower front corner tip; the expected light tanning to the text pages due to aging; a price has been neatly blocked out at the lower front panel; the binding is square and secure; the text clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing minor, unobtrusive imperfections. Close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7 x 4.25 x 0.6 inches) . Language: English. Weight: 4.2 ounces. "New Bantam Books edition" of 1975; second printing thus. Mass Market Paperback. Conrad Richter (1890 – 1968) was an American novelist whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods. His novel The Town (1950) , the last story of his trilogy The Awakening Land about the Ohio frontier, won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His novel The Waters of Kronos won the 1961 National Book Award for Fiction. Several of his novels have been reissued during the 21st century by academic presses. His trilogy "The Awakening Land", is about the Ohio frontier and comprises The Trees (1940) , The Fields (1946) , and The Town (1950). In 1947 he won the Ohioana Book Award for The Fields and The Town was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1951. The three books are concerned with Sayward and her family but the growth and the astonishingly rapid development of a whole area which has played a key role in the nation's history… Mr. Richter has reproduced the quality and the speech of these people so well that a thousand years from now, one may read his books and know exactly what these people were like and what it was like to have lived in an era when within three or four generations a frontier wilderness turned into one of the great industrial areas of the earth. Each of the books stands on its own as an entity and may be read on its own as a full, rich and comprehensive novel based upon the lives of ordinary people, brave and heroic in their own small way. ; The Awakening Land; Vol. 2; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; viii, 196 pages .