Their Fathers' God: A Novel

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); patterned paper-covered boards and dark blue cloth backstrip, blocked and titled in gilt on spine; patterned endpapers; dustjacket; x,338 + [2]pp ads. Upper corners tapped (though still sharp), tiny tear to cloth at crown, with some dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned, a bit shelfworn and dust-soiled, with several nicks and small tears (one of them tape-mended on verso), and faint stains at crown and lower flap folds; Very Good. The concluding volume in Rölvaag's Immigrant Trilogy, preceded by Giants in the Earth and Peder Victorious. Their Father's God follows the second generation of immigrant families who settled in the West; "pioneering hardships and loneliness are largely of the past; but the children born of pioneer parents have emotional and temperamental problems of their own" (from front flap). 82847. (Inventory #: 82847)