Raintree County

Ross Lockridge, Jr.

1948 First Edition, Houghton Mifflin, Boston
First state with "Wasn't Jesus God's?" on line 3, page 152
Gilt letters stamped in black panel on the spine and a tree with falling leaves in gold stamped on the front.  Forest green full cloth cover.  Decorated endpapers in NEAR FINE to FINE condition without dust jacket.  1065 pp. 
This was Lockridge’s only book made into a 1957 film starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor.  Scarce, especially in this condition.