Wooden Shoe Hollow [*SIGNED*]

[light shelfwear, some dust-soiling to top of text block, tiny ink stain at lower right corner of front cover; the jacket is a bit sun-browned along the spine and edges, with a couple of smudges on the rear panel, where there is also a little cluster of ink stains at the lower left corner]. SIGNED by the author (no inscription) on the front endpaper. Vanity-press novel about a woman who emigrates from Germany to the U.S. "to escape a loveless marriage forced upon her by an insensitive father"; a chance encounter aboard ship leads her to settle in the titular colony, "a primitive community of German-American farmers" located near Cincinnati, Ohio. It's actually a real place, located about seven miles from downtown Cincinnati, and the author herself, unsurprsingly, was born in the city. The book began as an advanced writing project in one of her journalism classes at the University of Cincinnati, but had its roots even earlier in her life, when she was sent at the age of about ten to live with an aunt in the community. She also drew upon other connections (her mother, for instance, was born there), and the book incorporates a "wealth of folklore" related to the German-American community. It garnered a great deal of local attention at the time of its original publication, and has retained enough historical and cultural interest to have occasioned a second edition, with added contextual material, maps, etc., in 2004. Signed by Author

Product Info

Publisher: Exposition Press

Year: (c.1951)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Signed

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