(no dust jacket) [nice tight copy with minor shelfwear, soiling and foxing to edges of text block, tiny bump to top rear corner]. The first of Fauset's four novels, tracing the family histories of the Marshalls of New York and the Byes of Philadelphia, each of whom must come to terms with the interconnectedness of the black and white races within their families. Written in direct response to (and rebuttal of) T.S. Stribling's 1922 novel "Birthright," which she and other African-American intellectuals felt presented an unrealistic and stereotypical depiction of black life in America. As liter... View More...
[moderate shelfwear to bottom edge and top of spine, otherwise a solid clean book; jacket a little edge- and surface-worn, very slight paper loss at a couple of corners, light rubbing/fading to spine, very slight paper loss at spine ends, tiny hole near top of rear hinge]. African-American author's first (and apparently only) novel, about a single day in the life of a group of Chicago boys who, goaded by the character B.J., "a child of destiny and daring, experienced in the ways of reform schools," engage in "one escapade after another, each more exciting and terrifying than its pr... View More...
[light wear to extremities, otherwise a nice clean book; the jacket shows some wear along the top and bottom edges, with a number of tiny nicks and very slight paper loss at several corners]. INSCRIBED ("To Gwen and Jack / my other children -- / who are very special / to my family") and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Set in the Black community of Berkeley, California, where the title character "opens a barber shop [and] proceeds to wreak havoc among the lives of the people around her. Science fiction? Surrealism? Poetic license gone made in prose? This book is none of the ab... View More...
[ex-rental library book, label on front pastedown but otherwise unmarked as such, light shelfwear, faint soiling to edges of text block; jacket age-browned and edgeworn, a bit of shallow chipping along bottom edge, some paper loss at both ends of spine and a couple of corners, tiny piece missing from middle of rear hinge, light staining at bottom of rear panel]. A novel that "takes us among the daily rounds of plantation negro life," by yet another of those authors (they were seemingly all over the place in the 1920s) who "understands the plantation negro as few white men have eve... View More...
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