Search Results: ollie miss by henderson

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated with woodblock illustrations by L. Balcom. Ownership signature of the author Dorothy Thompson, and modest wear, a very good copy in an attractive, about very good dustwrapper with internal reinforcements. This African-American author's first novel, the story of a Black girl in rural Alabama.

New York: Stokes, 1935. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Woodblock illustrations by L. Balcom. Slight soiling to the binding else about fine in a nice, very good dustwrapper with some light scuffing on the spine and some light nicking at the crown. A very nice copy of this novel about an African-American girl in rural Alabama.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Corners are a bit bumped else a very good or better copy in very good pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Lowell Leroy Balcolm, and which has been carefully reinforced on verso with paper-tape along the joints and with the spine a little tanned. "Life among Negro sharecroppers in Alabama is presented for the first time." see Whiteman. *A Century of Fiction by American Negroes,* p. 27].

London : Martin Secker, 1935. 1st UK Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 252 pages; Description: 252 p. , 21 cm. Subjects: African Americans --Fiction. African American Literature.

Martin Secker, London, 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the US edition but scarcer still. 8vo. 253pp. Green cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. Top edge lightly dust soiled, and with a little spotting to the fore edge. Some spotting to the preliminary and concluding leaves, and with a trace more to occasional leaf margins. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, toned at the spine panel, with three small areas of edge-loss and with several tiny areas of surface abrasion. The uncommon debut novel from one of the lesser known Harlem Renaissance writers, depicting black sharecroppers in rural Alabama (Henderson was born in Alabama in 1904, later moving to New York during the Great Migration. He worked as a printer for the 'New York Daily News' where nine of his stories also appeared)..

Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1988. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First University Of Alabama Press Trade Paperback Edition (First Thus). The Front Cover Has A Short Crease At The Upper Corner.