Bedford Village

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1944. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); light green cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in blue on spine and front cover and decoration blind embossed to front cover; dustjacket; 305pp; photographic frontispiece on glossy paper. Foxing to spine and edges, with light shelf-soil to upper edge of textblock, and offsetting to front pastedown and endpaper; Very Good. Dustwrapper, with painting by Andrew Wyeth, unclipped (priced $2.50), tanned, with modest shelfwear and rubbing, tiny chips and tears to spine ends and extremities, and 0.5" tear to lower rear panel; Very Good. Allen's novel follows Book (truncated) One, The Forest and the Fort and focuses on the American frontier settlement in 1764. [83888]. (Inventory #: 83888)