Green cloth, gilt lettering, 372pp. Ms. Holt's sixth novel. Spine ends bumped, edges faded, binding quite firm. Dust jacket is bright and clean, especially the front panel, spine ends lightly bumped with a bit of colorchipping, a tiny closed tear at bottom edge of front panel, back panel has a bit of very light scattered foxing evident, protected in a new Gaylord archival clear plastic cover. Synopsis from dust jacket flap: . . . Ms. Holt's most ambitious and her richest, most entertaining story. Centered in the Middle West, it becomes in its extraordinary range of incident, emotion and physical detail a faithful picture of Americans coming of age in the fertile years between 1906 and 1912.

HISTORICAL ROMANCE