The Great Snow by Henry Morton Robinson was first published in paperback in January, 1952 by Pocket Books with the stock #843. It had first come out in hardback by Simon & Schuster in April, 1947 and went through six printings before the paperback edition was issued.

The copy that is for sale is a first edition paperback.

The cover looks as much late 1940's as it does early 1950's, and judging solely by the cover (women with cleavage showing and guys with their long sleeved, white shirts on) you'd never think it has gay content. "But it does, Blanche, it does!" Michael Bronski describes it on page 342 of his famous book, Pulp Friction. While Ian Young's book, The Male Homosexual in Literature: A Bibliography doesn't list this book, it does list Robinson's subsequent book, Water of Life. Robinson is also mentioned in Gay American Novels, 1870-1970 by Drewey Wayne Gunn.

There's a very neat review of it in Goodreads which includes this: "What really makes this story so remarkable for modern readers, however, is a powerful subplot that may be the first literary treatment of a father and his gay son to be written from the point of view of the father. Indeed, what must it have been like for a father in those days to suddenly realize beyond any doubt that his son, barely an adolescent, is homosexual and always will be?"

The book is stored & will be shipped in a polypropylene bag.

I will combine shipping to reduce the cost. Let me know if you are bidding on more than one book.

It will be shipped via Media Mail from Hawaii, which is sometimes quick, but it can take between 6 to 8 weeks.