New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this civil rights activist and head of the NAACP for many years, the story of a woman who initially passes for white, then re-embraces her racial identity (In his autobiography, White said ""I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me." so he also could have easily passed for white; instead he used his appearance for undercover investigation of lynchings in the South.) 300 pp plus colophon and 3 pp publisher's ads.