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Raintree County by Ross Lockridge Jr 1948 Early Edition Houghton Mifflin Co.

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Published in 1948 by Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge. Includes original insert and photocopied flaps and back of the dust jacket. Green cloth boards with tree in gilt on front cover. Black title label on spine. Gilt lettering is faded. Stain on spine. Minimal wear around edges. Decorative endpapers. Binding is tight. Book plate on FFEP verso. Light toning. Pages are crisp and clean. 

Raintree County tells the story of a small-town Midwestern teacher and poet named John Shawnessy, who, in his younger days before his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War, met and married a beautiful Southern belle; however, her emotional instability leads to the destruction of their marriage.