[ornamented line] | ALIEN LAND | [ornamented line] | By Willard Savoy | E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY, INC. | PUBLISHERS 1949 NEW YORK [ornamented line]
Copyright, 1949, by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
[1] DEDICATION | To my wife, with deepest affect, for without her patient | endurance of the many tribulations known only to | writers and to their wives, this book could never have | been written-- | To the child which my wife and I may someday have-- | and to the children of each American--in the fervent hope | that at least one shall be brought to see more clearly the
[2] | enduring need for simple humanity; that at least one shall | because of its pages meet his fellows free of jaundice which | twists the mind and hardens the heart against the importunities | of the soul; in the hope too, that these shall understand | that the importance of this story is not that a man | went
[3] to live in an alien land, but that something fearful | drove him to make the journey in the face of every instinct | which was his. | In this hope, and to these, this book is dedicated.
Alien Land (1949 E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. edition)
first edition, copyrighted 1949, published by E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc.)