THE RICHER HARVEST by Elizabeth Corbett Philadelphia/New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, (1952). First edition (stated). A fine, fresh copy; in a near fine, illustrated dust jacket with minor nicks to the shelf extremities. Elizabeth Corbett creates a "portrait in this novel of a man who achieved contentment although everything seemed to go wrong with his career."--publisher's blurb. "A small town in the middle west and a familiar environment backgrounds the story of Charley Hinckley whose lifetime of cheerful abnegation began with his rejection by his mother in favor of a younger brother, George. Engaged to marry Phoebe, Charley's plans for marriage are stalled by his father's death and the need to support his mother, the worthless George, and the bride he brings back home. And as the years roll by, Charley goes on alone, sits in on the romance of Antoinette, the widow next door, who is waiting for another man to marry her. But when he doesn't, it is Charley who gives her the courage to go on, and who finds the ""richer harvest"" of marriage when a friendship is converted to love... The fall guy, whose selflessness and stoicism give him more stature than glamor, in what you might call a purposeful portrait..."--Kirkus Reviews. Born in Aurora, Illinois in 1887, Elizabeth Frances Corbett died in her Greenwich Village apartment in 1981. A very scarce novel by the prolific author whose works were published from 1916 to 1972. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!