The Fire in the Flint

Third printing. A near fine copy in defective third printing dust jacket, chipped at extremities and separated or detached at the folds, held together by a jacket protector. 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. Inscribed by White: "For Courtenay Lemon with the best wishes of/ Walter F. White. New York City. 24 April 1925". Courtenay Lemon, who lived with author Djuna Barnes from 1916-1919, was a copy editor for the New York Times, script reader for the Theater Guild, and has been described as a socialist, a drama critic, as well as 'a libertine [and] an incipient alcoholic' - *Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960* by Ross Wetzsteon, p.440.…