The Four Winds Cloth - 2021

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2021. SIGNED. NF/F. Stated First U.S. Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Kristin Hannah with a gold Sharpie on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and black cloth boards. Tiny creases to the spine ends. The Book is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Illustrated endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 454 pages. 6½ x 9½. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life. The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.