Description:
Lombard, IL: Albin O. Horn, 1960. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 173 pp. Tan cloth with brown titling and brown stripe to front joint. Cloth is very clean, like new. Dust jacket printed in brown and white, with spine sunned and spine text discolored to a dark green. Rubbing, some light soiling, and damp staining to dust jacket. Text block clean and sound, with faint bibliochor. A romance novel centering around prejudice and racial tensions in the American South, with a white, upper-class, female protagonist choosing between suitors: a "non-gentile" leftist painter, a racist military officer, and "Lone Tree," the reclusive Native American who comes to her rescue. "A man's ability, his character and his capabilities are more important than accident of birth, or identity and economic status. In a liberal, democratic society, why should anything but merit determine one's opportunity?