New York: Random House, (1950). dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects 18 short stories and 2 novelettes from the more than 200 published in the magazine during the previous year. A strong collection with novelettes by Paul Horgan - 'The Devil in the Desert' - and Kay Boyle - 'A Disgrace to the Family - and short stories by Zora Neale Hurston ('The Conscience of the Court'), Ray Bradbury ('The World the Children Made'), Paul Gallico, Conrad Richter, McKinley Kantor and others. SIGNED by Bradbury at his story and very uncommon thus. 298 pp.

Berkeley, CA: Turtle Island Foundation, (1985.). First edition - Foreword by Bob Callahan. Includes several of Hurston's earliest stories, as well as an excerpt from her mostly destroyed manuscript "Herod." First publication of "Book of Harlem." 106 pp. ISBN: 0-913666-793.

Berkeley, CA: Turtle Island Foundation, (1985.). First edition - Foreword by Bob Callahan. Includes several of Hurston's earliest stories, as well as an excerpt from her mostly destroyed manuscript "Herod." First publication of "Book of Harlem." 106 pp. ISBN: 0-913666-793.

New York: Harper Collins, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes all of her published short stories, listed chronologically by the date of their first appearance and seven not previously published stories. Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Sieglinde Lemke and an afterword by Gates. Bibliography. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-060167327.

Berkeley, CA: Turtle Island Foundation, (1985.). First edition - Foreword by Bob Callahan. Includes several of Hurston's earliest stories, as well as an excerpt from her mostly destroyed manuscript "Herod." First publication of "Book of Harlem." First issue with all the points, including 9.95 cover price, no "Spunk" on spine. 106 pp. ISBN: 0-913666-793.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1978.). As a pioneer of African-American ethnography, who did graduate study in anthropology with the renowned Franz Boas, Hurston devoted herself to preserving the Black folk heritage. In Mules and Men (1935), the first book of African-American folklore written by an African-American, she returned to her native Florida and to New Orleans to record stories and sermons, blues and work songs, children's games, courtship rituals, and formulas of hoodoo doctors. Original preface by Franz Boas and illustrations by the Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias. New introduction by Robert Hemenway. 291pp. ISBN: 0-253202086.

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.

New York: Scribner's, 1948. Hardcover first edition - Hurston's fourth, and final, novel - the story of Arvey and Jim Meserve - Jim had gumption and wanted to get ahead, and so they moved from the Suwanee to the citrus belt in Florida, but the heart of the story is Arvey's long stumbling progress towards self-discovery and fulfillment. The writing in this book is immediately captivating; it has a strong sense of Florida as a real place of beauty and tawdriness and a complicated history. First edition with both the Scribner 'A' and seal on the copyright page. 311 pp.

New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1991. dj. First edition - A stage adaptation of three of Hurston's short stories - 'Sweat', 'Story in Harlem Slang', and The Gilded Six-Bits' - by this noted African American playwright. Includes music for the original country -blues songs composed by Chic Street Man. Illustrated with photographs from the first productions. 112 pp. ISBN: 1-559360240.

New York: The Feminist Press, (1979.). The first anthology of Hurston's work ever published - the book which was primarily responsible for the "rediscovery" of this important African American woman writer. Dedication and afterword by Alice Walker, introduction by Mary Helen Washington. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-912670-665.

New York: Chelsea House Publishers, (1991). A biography of this important Harlem Renaissance author, written for younger readers and illustrated throughout with photographs. Introductory essay by Coretta Scott King. A title in the Black Americans of Achievement series, edited by Nathan Irvin Huggins. List of books by Hurston, a chronology, suggestions for further reading and index. Slightly oversized square format. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-791011542.