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CONTENDING FORCES: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South.
Edition: First thus.
Carbondale and Edwardsville, IN: Southern Illinois University Press, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in 1899 by the Colored Co-operative Publishing Company, Boston, this was one of the first novels to be published in the US by an African American woman writer, a novel which deals realistically with the injustices, including lynching and rape, still so common 35 years after the end of the Civil War. Now reissued as a title in The Lost American Fiction series edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Includes a new afterward by Gwendolyn Brooks. Illustrated by R. Emmett Owen. 412 pp plus a list of the titles in this series. ISBN: 0-809308746.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (foxing to top edge of textblock, some wear to the dj at the top of the spine, tape reinforced on the interior)
Book ID: 86749More details Price: $28.50 -
CONTENDING FORCES: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South.
Edition: First thus.
Carbondale and Edwardsville, IN: Southern Illinois University Press, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in 1899 by the Colored Co-operative Publishing Company, Boston, this was one of the first novels to be published in the US by an African American woman writer, a novel which deals realistically with the injustices, including lynching and rape, still so common 35 years after the end of the Civil War. Now reissued as a title in The Lost American Fiction series edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Includes a new afterward by Gwendolyn Brooks. Illustrated by R. Emmett Owen. 412 pp plus a list of the titles in this series. ISBN: 0-809308746.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 86770More details Price: $31.50 -
TO THE SARGASSO SEA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Prize-winning author's second novel, set in Bermuda in 1971. 461 pp. ISBN: 0-671-552074.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (remainder mark.)
Book ID: 42934More details Price: $15.00 -
TO THE SARGASSO SEA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Prize-winning author's second novel. 461 pp. ISBN: 0-671-552074.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (edge of board bumped - a tight copy, appears unread, but some handling wear.)
Book ID: 44812More details Price: $12.50