The Fire in the Flint
WHITE, Walter F.
From Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since July 25, 1997
From Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since July 25, 1997
About this Item
First edition. Octavo. 300 + ads pp. Decorated maroon cloth. A few faint soil marks on the cloth, else a very good copy with the text fresh and clean, lacking the dust jacket. An important African-American novel: "Dr. Kenneth Harper returns to his native Georgia to practice medicine. His efforts to help poor Negroes incur local white hatred. His sister is raped and his brother commits suicide after wreaking vengeance upon the white rapists. Dr. Harper is lynched after giving aid to a white patient" - Whiteman. *A Century of Fiction by American Negroes*, p. 47. White headed the NAACP for a quarter of a century. Warmly inscribed by White to author Theodore Stempfel, with Stempfel's copy attractive contemporary bookplate: "To my new friend - For Theodore Stempfel, With the best of wishes, Walter F. White. Indianapolis 17 November 1924". Stempfel translated a number of works on the American 'Turnerbund' movement, a gymnastic union with early roots in Germany, that in the 19th-century was a proponent of socialism and the abolition of slavery. Seller Inventory # 515933
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Fire in the Flint
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Publication Date: 1924
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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