River George
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1937. Hardcover. 275p., first edition lemon-yellow cloth boards titled black in dust jacket, cracked front hinge, minor browning of end papers, the slightly edgeworn but bright pictorial dj features a cover image in colors (stevedore hauling on a rope) by Paul Laune.
The African American writer's first novel (he had already published his nonfiction study "Beale Street: Where the Blues Began") moves from the protagonist's Tennessee sharecropping family to his beloved Beale Street and back again, with the sharecroppers' struggle as the moving force.
Cat.No: 23564
Price: $150.00
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