Where Southern Cross the Dog (Inscribed First Edition)

Emerald Book Company, Austin, 2010. First edition. First printing, with full number line to 1. Black boards; spine lettered in gilt. Near fine in a near fine jacket. A tight, clean copy with a small bruise to the bottom edge. Dust jacket with a crease to the front flap; publisher's original price ($24.95) intact. Inscribed by Allen Whitley to prior owners in September 2010, the month of publication. Map endpapers. CD, new in its original plastic cover, affixed to the rear pastedown as issued. 8vo. 365 pp. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A novel set in late-1930s Clarksdale, Mississippi, where a young white college graduate and an affluent, educated African-American woman investigate the killing of a day laborer and uncover a conspiracy reaching from the Jim Crow South to prewar Europe. The accompanying CD compilation by Allen Whitley and Jim O'Neal features recordings by artists including Emma Jane Davis and Asa Ware.