The Grandfathers (INSCRIBED COPY) by: Conrad Richter
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed blue cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine, 180 pages. INSCRIBED BY RICHTER on the front fly leaf. Vivid and sometimes startling in its comic invention, this is the story of a sixteen-year-old girl, the eldest of a brood of fatherless children in a Maryland mountain valley community, and the story also of the men, some young and some old, whose lives, personalities, and strong characters supply the routes through which she enters womanhood. Mild soil to covers, clean copy.