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-CHARLES LEE, Minneapolis bourn`] P BIN TIN GS

First published...... .. June 25, 1937

U.S., 1937 fifteen times; 1938 eight times; 1939 four times; 1940 three times; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1950; 1952;

1954; 1956; 1957 Book-of-the-Month Club . . .......................July, 1937

Braille, Library of Congress September, 1937 Talking Books, American Foundahon for Blind January, 1949

England ( Collins ), Book Society; Daily Mail Book-of-the-Month

January, 1938 Australia (Angus & Robertson) February, 1938 Sweden ( Bonniers ) April, 1938 Germany ( Paul List ) September, 1938 Denmark ( Jespersen ) September, 1938 Norway (Cappelens) October, 1938 Finland (KirJa) . November, 1938 Holland ( Torrentrans ) December, 1938 Japan (Mikasa Shobo) December, 1938 Italy ( Mondadori ) . March, 1939 England (Foyle's Book Club) May, 1939 Hungary ( Revai ) . May, 1939 Czechoslovakia ( E.L.K. ) June, 1939 Continent of Europe (Albatross Giant) June, 1939

Poland ("Roj") ...July, 1939

Rumania ( Ciornei )... ..............November, 1939

France (Editions Stock: 338 printings ) February, 1940 Brazil (Companhia Editora Nacional) July, 1941 Spain ( Janes ) . June, 1946 Yugoslavia ( Athenaeum ) Details unobtainable British Broadcasting Co., 8 instals July-Sept., 1947 Czechoslovakia ( Podrouzek ) January, 1948 Sweden ( Bonniers, Folkbibliotek ) November, 1953 Germany (Europaischer Book Club) March, 1953 England (Collins Fontana) November, 1953 Italy ( Mondadori ) 4 Vol. Pavone Edition January, 1955 Yugoslavia (Kosmos, Belgrade) May, 1955 Finland ( Otava, Helsinki ) December, l 956

OLIVER WISWELL

"The story of the Royalists in the American Revolution has never been adequately told in fiction form. Now, after 160 years, Kenneth Roberts has undertaken this herculean task in Oliver Wiswell. No one excepting a man of Mr. Roberts' stature as a writer could lay before us the case of the American Royalists. It takes industry and unending research to accomplish the bare skeleton of such a book; it takes a high form of imagination, finished technique, and courage to carry the task to a successful conclusion. Yes, courage; for even after the passing of centuries, old prejudices still persist and cloud issues. It requires something greater than good writing and technique to hold up for examination a lost cause, and turn the dead past into a living present. This Kenneth Roberts has done. He has given life to people who were only names on a page of history, and summed up a case for Americans whom we had forgotten were Americans."

-INGEIS FLETCHER, San Francisco Chronic P BIN TIN GS

First published November 22, 1940 Reprinted twice before publication U.S., 1940 twice, 1945;1946;1948;195~j1957 Braille, Library of Congress January, 1941 Australia ( Angus & Robertson ) January, 1941 Sweden (Bonniers) February, 1941 Switzerland (Humanitas; Zurich) April, 1941 Brazil(CompanhiaEditoraNacional) July, 1941

England ( Collins ) . . August, 1943

England (National Library for Blind)November, 1943 Czechoslovakia (Thalia) May, 1946 France (Editions de la Paix)September, 1947

Spain ( Janes ) ..May, 1949

Italy (Mondadori) September, 1949 Switzerland ~ Germany jig (Diana; Zurich)November, 1953 Austria

LYDIA BAILEY

"Lydia Bailey is a rich, long, never lagging book, triumphantly ranging over half the world and more than half of human hopes and follies. It shows Kenneth Roberts' special power of bringing the past to full and unforgettable life; and in its anger at political selfishness and stupidity it has a harsh, barbed meaning for today. If 1947 produces a better novel, it will be a notable year for American fiction."

WALTER HAVIGEIURST, Chicago Tribune PRINTINGS

First published January a, 1947 U.S., 1947 three times; 1956

Literary Guild........................January, 1947

Braille ( Library of Congress )June, 1947 Book-of-the-Month Club .July, 1947 Braille (Clovernook; Library of Congress)January, 1948 Argentina (Rueda; Spanish)October, 1947 Brazil (Instituto Progreso; Portuguese)November, 1947

Norway ( Cappelens ) ................... Deeember, 1947 England (Collins)January, 1948 Australia ( Collins ) January, 1948 Sweden (Bonniers) May, 1948 Switzerland (Diana; Zurich)June, 1948 Denmark ( Asehehoug ) ........................ June, 1948

Holland (Breughel)....................... August, 1948 Finland (Aura) Oetober, 1948

France ( Editions de la Paix ) November, 1948 Hungary (Konyvkiado) Deeember, 1949

Spain ( Janes ) .. July, 1950 Italy (Mondadori) November, 195z

England ( Collins Fontana ).....................1954 Yugoslavia (Kosmos; Belgrade)May, 1955

BOON ISLAND

"Once you've read this powerful story, the barren rocky island will become a part of your inner consciousness. You'll never forget it."

W. P. BURNETT, Saturday Review of Literature

"Boon Island is one of those experiences in reading which, like Robinson Crusoe, The Journal of the Plague Year or The Admirable Crichton, can never be forgotten. It is a book you feel in your bones and in your stomach. Kenneth Roberts has added a dimen- sion of his own to the old theme of men against the sea."

BRADFORD SMITH, New York Herald Tribune

PRINTINGS

First published January 2, 1956 Reader's Digest Book Club April, 1956 Book-of-the-Month Club August, 1957 England ( Collins ) September, 1956 Denmark (Aschehoug) September, 1956 France ( Denoel ) November, 1956

Sweden ( Bonniers ) ....January, 1957 Argentina ( Jackson )February, 1957 Mexico ( Cumbre )........................ February, 1957 Italy ( Mondadori ) ............July, 1957

TO BE PUBLISHED

Finland Werner Soderstrom Germany Diana Verlag

THE BATTLE OF COWPENS

"The last work of the late Kenneth Roberts is a small volume that looms big in the mind and heart of this nation. For the Battle of Cowpens was really the turning-point in the American Revolution, when Morgan's rough and ready raiders took on Tarleton's veteran troops in a South Carolina meadow and in less than an hour showed the way that Yorktown would go This is a diorama of the battle done with the unfailing skill of Roberts at his best though his last. It is a gem of historical re-enactment."

Charles A. Wagner, New York Mirror

"With scrupulous fidelity to fact, Mr. Roberts has illumined one of our 'greatest hours' and given it dimension, significance and literary immortality."

Alice Dixon Bond, The Boston Herald

Published April 3, 1958

OTHER BOOKS BY KENNETH ROBERTS

TRENDING INTO MAINE (published Little Brown, 1938: Doubleday, 1944)

'Kenneth Roberts takes you into the kitchen, sits you down by the stove, hands you a doughnut, and stuffs you full of Arundel, Maine traditions, Maine smells, Maine people, the hardships of soldiering, the pleasures of ducks' breasts, the bravery of sea captains' daughters." E. B. WHITE, Saturday Review of Literature

MARCH TO QUEBEC (published 1938: revised 1940)

"Bringing together, in March to Quebec, the journals of the Quebec Expedition is an exceedingly valuable contribution to the Americana of the Revolution.. Many have been practically inaccessible.... Only a few libraries in the country have them all, and he who would buy them for himself would be obliged to spend a large sum of money and wait for a year or so before some dealer in rare books could accumulate all of them." Boston Evening Transcript

MOREAU DE ST. MERY'S AMERICAN JOURNEY ( 17g3-l798) (published 1g47: a translation by Kenneth and Anna Roberts)

"Here is a cross-section of a nation in the process, to use Moreau's apt phrase, of being born." New York Times

I WANTED TO WRITE (published 1g49)

"The record of the reading, the assimilation, the eternal tracking down of details, the enormous correspondence, and the starts and stops of a historical novel in progress. Here is the reason why it took three years to write Oliver Wiswell and five years to complete Lydia Bailey. Here is what you go on doing, once you have learned to write."

Atlantic Monthly HENRY GROSS AND HIS DOWSING ROD (published 1951)

"In October, 1949, Henry Gross dowsed a fresh-water dome at Clayhouse on a map of Bermuda, an island on which no potable spring water supposedly existed. The Clayhouse well was drilled and, on April 27, 1950, flowed 44 gallons a minute, a daily 63,360 gallons 'wasting its sweetness on the desert air.' It is the greatest Bermuda story ever told." PACK BRECK, Mid-Ocean (Bermuda) News

THE SEVENTH SENSE (published 1g53)

"The Seventh Sense is Roberts' answer to the volleys of his critics the account of the first year's operation of Water Unlimited Inc. whose aims are to insure an adequate supply of water for the world's people, and to obtain for I leery Gross a steady income."

ALAN N^sn, Rochester Times-Union WATER UNLIMITED (published 1957)

"The earlier books [Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod and The Seventh Sense] convinced me of the authenticity of Roberts' reports, and of his theories about the circulation of subterranean water.... I recommend this volume and the two earlier ones to any person not blinded by unshakable prejudgments as offering a major contribution to the world's vital need for water resources."

EDMHND FUEEER, Chicago Tribune