Village Virtue (Only copy for sale on the Internet) (Signed)

Description: Condition Continued: The only space at a juncture that I found was between the first and second of the blank rear end papers. It's very thin and both end papers are solidly bound. The juncture between the rear cover and rear end paper is fine. The pages are very clean. Perhaps there are two or three small vague spots. I'm not seeing any creasing. There are no markings. No attachments. The previous owner did (oddly, as this is a work of fiction) pencil a short line (mostly only one, a few times two or three) at the blank margin of eleven pages. I erased one to see how easily it came off. It removed the penciling, but did leave an impression of the line. The Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1931. Hardcover. First Edition (SD). Once listed, this will be the Only copy for sale anywhere on the Internet. Moreover, it is signed and inscribed by the author. The inscription is on the first front end paper. It reads: 'To Phil _______ , a great judge+ a great guy. Harry Durant, Sept 24, 1931.' The Preface by the author: 'For fifty years the author has made a close study of small towns in Connecticut and their people. He has had unusual opportunities for observation and recording because he was born among them and spent most of his life in their midst. This story is in an attempt to fictionalize the lives of a group of rural Connecticut natives, all of whom have long since gone to be finally judged elsewhere, but whose counterparts live today and no doubt always will! It is the author's final analysis on despicable characters such as some of these, that they do not represent over ten percent of the population in any Connecticut small town. That is to say, fully ninety percent of the people are honest, charitable, god-fearing and neighborly, the finest types of American families we have, and which ninety percent will continue to add to the moral strength of our national spirit and character-- the truest representatives of our best business, professional and religious life. Therefore, the ten percent of any small Connecticut community which carries the slander, bigotry, hypocrisy, envy, malice and treachery of their village, is merely the proportion of weak and selfish human nature which abounds perhaps in larger measure in our cities, that unhappy heritage which has been man's burden down through the ages.'

Price: 40 USD

Location: Pound Ridge, New York

End Time: 2025-01-07T23:33:31.000Z

Shipping Cost: 5.38 USD