New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1931).
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Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. 199pp. Pale brown cloth stamped on front board with illustration by Aaron Douglas. Near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to a pioneering black collector: "For Glenn Carrington with the best wishes of Arna Bontemps. 2-15-49." The first novel by this important Harlem Renaissance author. Bontemps collaborated with Countee Cullen to adapt the novel for the stage, where it appeared as *St. Louis Woman.* Glenn Carrington, the recipient, was a gay black man, who socialized with writers of the Harlem Renaissance such as Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Alain Locke, and Countee Cullen, and was one of the first African-Americans to serve as a parole officer in New York State.
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