London: Michael Joseph, (1947). Hardcover - An uncommon early UK printing (just one month after the first) of this novel, was has been described as a "living portrait of Harlem in the forties." In pale blue cloth with red illustration on the front cover, red lettering on spine. The novel upon which Petry's reputation rests - and the first novel by a black woman writer to sell more than 1 million copies. 312 pp.