Harper and Brothers, New York, 1943, 2nd Edition, I-S.  Hard cover, 432 pages plus information on the Harper Prize Novel Contest.  Very good; blue boards with yellow lettering on spine; lower corners and spine ends show a bit of wear; light shelf wear.  Binding sound; fore-edge deckled.  Dust jacket is price-clipped, with edge wear and toning, some small losses and short edge tears, none of which have been tape-repaired.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  Winner of the 1943-44 Harper Prize Novel, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 1944.  ‘By turns admirable, pitiable, tough, noble, weak, futile, and brilliantly effective, a lonely man going nowhere in the dark, Sam Braden mirrors thousands like him who have put their familiar stamp upon the American way of life.’ (from front flap)