Alien Land (1949 E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. edition)
type: Item
instance of: edition
edition of: Alien Land (work)
format: book
extent statement: 320 pages
title page transcription: [ornamented line] | ALIEN LAND | [ornamented line] | By Willard Savoy | E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY, INC. | PUBLISHERS 1949 NEW YORK [ornamented line]
printing statement transcription: Printed in the U.S.A.
copyright statement transcription: Copyright, 1949, by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
dedication statement transcription: [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
dedication statement transcription: [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
dedication statement transcription: [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.
edition statement transcription: FIRST EDITION
published by: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc
printed by: American Book-Stratford Press, Inc. (organization)
content: dedication
content: collective dedication
price: 3
citation: Black Book Interactive Project Novels List (reference work)
description: first edition, copyrighted 1949, published by E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc.)