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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of June 26, 1939

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NEXT TO VALOUR
John Jennings

NEXT TO VALOUR

by John Jennings · Macmillan

2 wks on list

Typescript with manuscript corrections of a novel about the French and Indian war, published by Macmillan (New York, 1939).

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WICKFORD POINT
John P. Marquand
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WICKFORD POINT

by John P. Marquand · Little, Brown

14 wks on list

This work presents a touching evocation of an unorthodox New England aristocratic family, extremely proud of their social status. The protagonist Jim Calder is a magazine fiction writer who went to Harvard, served in World War I, and now spends much of his time between his other trips at Wickford Point, with its poor buildings and weary river setting.

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THE TREE OF LIBERTY
Elizabeth Page
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THE TREE OF LIBERTY

by Elizabeth Page · Farrar & Rinehart

Adventures of the members of a family from 1754 to 1806, as they move from the Eastern seaboard to the Western frontier and take part in great national events.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.