Deep Dark River

308 pages. Owner's signature to paste-down and small "Discard" stamp to top page edges, otherwise a clean copy. This is a significant association copy, signed and inscribed by the author to his publisher on the front free endpaper: "For Mr. & Mrs. John Farrar / with my thanks for their / help in clearing out the driftwood -- / and my sincere best wishes -- / Robert Rylee / 19 April 1935." The book was published a few months later on June 26, 1935. "An unusual novel, presenting the picture of the fight for justice for a negro in Mississippi, in the hands of a woman lawyer." (Kirkus Review) Size: 8vo.