New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1931 (1938). Hardcover - The third novel by this important Harlem Renaissance writer, considered the first 'modern' African American woman novelist, editor of 'The Crisis.' Introduction by Zona Gale and a foreword by Jessie Fauset in which she comments that this the story of dark Americans who wear their joy and rue very much as the white American. Although this novel was very popular,as evidenced by 6 printings in just 7 years, early copies of any printing by the original publisher have become increasingly hard to find. 341 pp.