Glasgow, Ellen with preface by author, — Barren Ground.

NY, Modern Library, (1933). Reprint. VG. In preface Glasgow writes that if she could select one of her books for immortality Barren Ground would be that book. She. says she has always wanted to write a novel like this one, the kind she likes to read, but also because it became almost a vehicle of liberation for her. After years of tragedy & its accompanying sense of defeat, she says she had won her way to the other side of the wilderness & had discovered she was another and a very different person. She knew that different & better work was ahead. Green binding, blue title square with gilt lettering. Sl edge wear.