HOPKINS, Pauline E.
Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South
First edition. Illustration and cover designed by R. Emmett Owen. Green cloth decorated in red and yellow. A couple of small, faint stains on the front fly, but a lovely, fine copy of this important novel, the eighth published novel by an African American woman, and one of the most important, notable for its realistic portrayal of lynching and prejudice in the unreconstructed South. Additionally, this was only the third novel published by an African-American-owned publishing company. Hopkins was the literary editor of Colored American Magazine, a short-lived but important periodical. A lovely copy of a rare and desirable book.
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