The Hindered Hand: or, the Reign of the Repressionist

15 illustrations (by Robert E[ugene] Bell, 333p. plus 4p. publisher's adverts. Original maroon cloth. Centered black & white illustration, also by Bell, mounted on lower portion of front cover. 19 cm. Covers rather shabby & worn -- decorative white ruled-lines on front cover mostly gone; ends of backstrip worn; corners and edges bumped. Hinges cracked and reglued, causing them to be a little stiff. No Jacket. Griggs has a separate essay at the end of this Third (and final) edition on Thomas Dixon's "anti-Black crusade ("A Hindering Hand;, Supplementary to the Hindered Hand : A Review of the Anti-Negro Crusade of Mr. Thomas Dixon, Jr."). In the first two editions, Dixon's book is discussed by two characters in the novel. This third edition greatly outsold the two earlier editions and almost all copies which turn up are Third editions.