1929 Joseph and His Brethren H.W. Freeman 1st Ed Rural English Farm Novel
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English Rural Fiction / Agricultural Novel: Joseph and His Brethren by H. W. Freeman is a powerful novel of family, labor, and survival centered upon Crackenhill Farm and the people attempting to wrest a living from its stubborn soil. Freeman portrays the English countryside as a living force, exploring generational conflict, changing relationships, farm traditions, hardship, and humanity’s difficult dependence upon the land. Contemporary reviewers compared its atmosphere to Thomas Hardy’s Wessex and Knut Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil, making it an appealing rediscovery for readers and collectors of rural literature, farming history, and early 20th-century English fiction.
Published in New York by Henry Holt and Company in 1929. Stated first edition hardcover with an introduction by R. H. Mottram and a frontispiece portrait of H. W. Freeman.
No dust jacket. Original burgundy cloth binding shows considerable age-related fading, discoloration, staining, rubbing, worn gilt lettering, bumped corners, and fraying with cloth loss at the head of the spine. Page edges are toned and show some staining, including reddish marks along the lower fore-edge. Interior has scattered foxing and age toning but remains readable, with the binding intact. Please review all photographs for the exact condition.
SKU G-6
1929 Joseph and His Brethren H.W. Freeman 1st Ed Rural English Farm Novel
$27.00
Published in New York by Henry Holt and Company in 1929. Stated first edition hardcover with an introduction by R. H. Mottram and a frontispiece portrait of H. W. Freeman.
No dust jacket. Original burgundy cloth binding shows considerable age-related fading, discoloration, staining, rubbing, worn gilt lettering, bumped corners, and fraying with cloth loss at the head of the spine. Page edges are toned and show some staining, including reddish marks along the lower fore-edge. Interior has scattered foxing and age toning but remains readable, with the binding intact. Please review all photographs for the exact condition.
SKU G-6