The Hindered Hand: or, the Reign of the Repressionist

Griggs, Sutton E.

Published by Orion Publishing Company, Nashville, 1905

333, plus [5]p. advertisements for three novels by Griggs. Original maroon cloth. 19 cm. No jacket. Chipping but less than usual, on the white ruled lines on front cover chipped. Some rubbing along extremities (modest loss of cloth, mostly at corner tips). Internally sounde and clean. Probably his best selling book although the first edition and second editions are quite elusive. This is an above averag copy of this novel. The first edition had 303 pages and no illustrations in the book or on the its red cover. The second edition also has 303 pages but with the addition of Bell's illustrations, including the cover illustration on a cover with maroon, rather than red, cloth. Almost all copies that show up for sale are the Third edition revised bulked up to 333 pages, partly because of the added essay at the end on "The Leopard Spots," an infamously racist novel by Thomas Dixon. In the earlier editions, Dixon's book had been discussed in less detail by two characters in the novel. Bell, whose illustrations show up in the second and third editions, appears to have been an African American artist -- probably the Robert E. Bell listed in Cederholm's "Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory" (1973). Seller Inventory # 92312

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Hindered Hand: or, the Reign of the ...
Publisher: Orion Publishing Company, Nashville
Publication Date: 1905
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: Third Edition - Revised.