Mules and Men

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, (1935).

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Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Franz Boas. Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias. Fine in near fine dustwrapper, with very slight tanning on the spine, a couple of small and faint splash marks on the spine, and some folds professionally repaired. The author's second book, a collection of Negro folk tales collected by Hurston in Florida. Because of the stiff and brittle paper employed in the construction of the jacket, this is the scarcest of Hurston's books to find in fine condition. It is seldom found intact, and when it is found is invariably chipped. This is easily the nicest copy we've seen.

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Item #79217 Mules and Men. Zora Neale HURSTON.
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Zora Neale Hurston
birth name: Zora Neale Hurston
born: 1/7/1891
died: 1/28/1960
nationality: USA

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Biography

African-American folklorist and writer who celebrated black culture in the voice of the rural South. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

All of the books published during the Florida author's lifetime are desirable, especially jacketed copies of her first book Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934 - don't be upset if the jacket has a red Book-of-the-Month Club sticker, the book and jakcet are otherwise identical), and her best-known work Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). Her book Mules and Men (1935) is usually less expensive, but is exceptionally uncommon in a fine jacket.

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