The town. / By Conrad Richter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richter, Conrad, 1890-1968.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wheeler, Sayward (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Wheeler, Sayward (Fictitious character).

Cities and towns--Ohio--Fiction.

Cities and towns.

History.

Ohio--History--Fiction.

Ohio.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

433 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Manufacture:

Norwood, Massachusetts : Composed, printed, and bound by The Plimpton Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.

Notes:

With half-title.

"Copyright 1950 by Conrad Richter."

"First Edition"

"This is a Borzoi Book, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."

"This book was set on the Linotype in Janson, a recutting made direct from the type cast from matrices (now in possession of the Stempel foundry, Frankfurt am Main) made by Anton Janson some time between 1660 and 1687 ... The book was based on designs by W. A. Dwiggins ..."

"Jacket design by John O'Hara Cosgrove II."

Red cloth boards decorated and ruled in light blue lettered in black on front cover and spine. Borzoi emblem stamped on lower right hand corner of back cover. Top edge stained black.

Received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1951.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

OCLC:

324497