London: Heath Cranton Limited, 1932.
Price: $150.00
Hardcover. First edition (not published in the United States). Octavo. Cloth. 351pp. White spine lettering lightly flaked, else a fine, bright copy in very good dust jacket with some shallow chips. Inscribed, and signed by the author: "To Howard Whipple, with the hope that the reading will not be too tedious. Cordially, George Work. San Francisco, September 1935." The jacket states: "The story of a boy, the illegitimate son of an able lawyer of the South and a mulatto woman... The author was born near Jackson, Mississippi, on a plantation which had been owned by his grandfather and his father. He spent part of his childhood in Mississippi and was reared in Texas...". A novel featuring African-American characters, with much of the dialogue in dialect, presumably the author was white.
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