JONAH'S GOURD VINE.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1934. dj. Hardcover first edition - Hurston's very uncommon first novel - a major work of the Harlem Renaissance - with an introduction by Fannie Hurst, in a dustjacket with a striking cover illustration by Covarrubias. An autobiographical novel, based on the story of her father, John Hurston, as he and his wife migrate from Alabama to Eatonville, Florida, the first all-Black incorporated town in America, where Zora grew up. She uses events from her childhood and the sermons she heard as a preacher's daughter to give a rich texture to this novel. Glossary. 316 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. The book is straight and tight but with the usual fading to the edges of the boards, shelfwear to the bottom edges, and the front endpaper has been replaced. In addition, the attractive dust jacket has been expertly repaired, including mending a split along the side of the spine, but the book still retains a few traces of its earlier history as a lending library copy, including a stamp on the front pastedown, a notation that it rented for 1c a day, and the date on both the title page and the copyright page had been covered with small star stickers and they are partially obliterated . Scarce in dust jacket.