first edition Hardcover
1946 · Boston
by Mergendahl, Charles
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. DETAILS NEEDED. The author's second novel, "the story of the boy next door, the one everybody thought was too young to get married, too callow to go to war. In this book the reader becomes one with that boy, lives and grows with him, understands him completely." The New York Times reviewer called it "an honest novel, written with a sensitivity for incident," but also felt that it was "more often a weary chronicle of a dull life that never gains the stature to justify its chronicling." Be that as it may, copies are scarce in the marketplace, which always suggests to me that the book has, over time, touched enough readers to have created a bit of a following -- or maybe it's just being collected for the beautiful George Salter dust jacket design, of which this is a very nice example. . (Inventory #: 22690)