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  • Publisher: G.K. Hall
  • Date published: 1998
  • Format: Hardcover
First Edition thus, very fine condition. Limited Special Collection. Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston. Published by G.K. Hall in 1998. Hardcover. What makes this title so special is its limited availability. - Publishers Weekly. Collectible item in very fine condition.
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  • Publisher: Library of America
  • Date published: 1995
New York: Library of America, 1995. First editions of the Library of American compilations of the works of both fiction and non-fiction of Zora Neale Hurston. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, ribbon bound in. Edited by Cheryl A. Wall. Fine in fine dust jackets. These volumes bring together for the first time all of Zora Neale Hurston's best works in one authoritative set.
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  • Publisher: J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia
  • Date published: 1971
  • Format: Hardcover
J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia. 1971. 316 pages. First edition Thus. This title was first published in 1934 by J.B. Lippincott. Thirty-seven years later, in 1971, J.B. Lippincott re-released this title in hardcover, with a new Introduction by celebrated scholar of the Black Arts Movement, Larry Neal. This is the first printing of the 1971 hardcover edition, with the Larry Neal introduction, in its original, rare DJ. $5.95 price intact on DJ flap, as well as publication date 1071. DJ shows small, shallow chipping at crown, and a couple of tiny chips on corner-tip folds. DJ spine shows sunning to rust-color hue. DJ shows some rubbing and minor soiling. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Black endpapers are clean. Minimal, minor soiling to page edges. Book opened a little wide on first fly, but no structural issue or effect. Rust-color paper boards quarter-bound in black cloth; titles stamped in gold. Gold titles on backstrip are bright and un-rubbed. Cornertips gently pushed. Small bruise on bottom edge of rear panel. An uncommon, vintage hardcover edition of Zora Neale Hurston's first book, in its rare, original DJ. All flaws noted.
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  • Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company, Phila. PA
  • Date published: 1934
  • Format: Hardcover
This is a hardcover first edition of Zora Neale Hurston's first book in the green cloth binding with black lettering on the cover & spine. With the lower corner of the title page clipped, obviously removing a library blindstamp. With a repaired pull at the spine top and some rubbing at the edges. Still a nice tight copy, alas, no DJ. Photos on request.
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  • Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company
  • Date published: 1934
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1934. First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In near fine condition, name to the title page. With an introduction by Fanny Hurst. Rare and desirable. Praised by Carl Sandburg as "a bold and beautiful book, many a page priceless and unforgettable." Written in only three to four months in 1934, Jonah's Gourd Vine is the first novel published by acclaimed anthropologist, writer, and Harlem Renaissance personality Zora Neale Hurston. The book, based loosely on her parents' lives, explores the life and consciousness of John Pearson and his relationship with his wife Lucy Potts and other women in the town. Pearson was depicted as a minister in a small black Florida town, Eatonville, which in reality was Hurston's hometown. In Hurston's work one hears and feels the authentic voice, power, and sensibilities of people and places. In this novel, she used events from her childhood and the sermons she heard as a preacher's daughter to give structure and texture to this novel.
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  • Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In near fine condition, name to the title page. With an introduction by Fanny Hurst. Rare and desirable. Praised by Carl Sandburg as "a bold and beautiful book, many a page priceless and unforgettable." Written in only three to four months in 1934, Jonah's Gourd Vine is the first novel published by acclaimed anthropologist, writer, and Harlem Renaissance personality Zora Neale Hurston. The book, based loosely on her parents' lives, explores the life and consciousness of John Pearson and his relationship with his wife Lucy Potts and other women in the town. Pearson was depicted as a minister in a small black Florida town, Eatonville, which in reality was Hurston's hometown. In Hurston's work one hears and feels the authentic voice, power, and sensibilities of people and places. In this novel, she used events from her childhood and the sermons she heard as a preacher's daughter to give structure and texture to this novel.
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  • Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Co, Philadelphia
  • Date published: 1934
  • Format: Softcover
First edition. 316pp. 8vo. Hurston's first book. Hurston's first book, an autobiographical novel, tells the story of her father, John Hurston, as he and his wife migrate from Alabama to Eatonville, FL, the first all-Black incorporated town in America, where Zora Neale grew up. She published articles and short stories throughout the twenties and early thirties, worked on a play with Langston Hughes, but only one act was published, and they fell out over questions of authorship, and had completed sufficient anthropological work to complete her first book on African-American folklore, Mules and Men, which she would publish after this book. After reading her story "The Gilded Six-Bits" in Story magazine, Bert Lippincott wrote Hurston to enquire as to whether she might be working on a novel, and she replied - deceptively - that she was. She set about writing this novel, and completed it in nine weeks. Carl Sandburg called it a "bold and beautiful book, many a page priceless and unforgettable." A scarce book to find in nice shape. American Dictionary of National Biography; The UCF Zora Neale Huston Digital Archive Publisher's cloth, stamped in black, with some rubbing around the bottom edge and corners, and sunning to spine and around the edges; text block is unmarked, overall near fine
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  • Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company
  • Date published: 1934
  • Format: Hardcover
First edition. Introduction by Fannie Hurst. Relatively discreet ex-library copy with public library stamp on title page overstamped "Withdrawn, " light evidence of pocket removed, hinges professionally strengthened with cloth, the usual sunning to the sensitive green cloth, still about very good lacking the rare dust jacket. This is W. E. B. DuBois's copy with his rubberstamped ownership facsimile signature. The author's rare first book, a novel about a big, lovable Alabama preacher with a strong appetite for extramarital affection. A terrific association.
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  • Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia
  • Date published: 1934
  • Format: Hardcover
First edition. Introduction by Fannie Hurst. Relatively discreet ex-library copy with public library stamp on title page overstamped "Withdrawn," light evidence of pocket removed, hinges professionally strengthened with cloth, the usual sunning to the sensitive green cloth, still about very good lacking the rare dust jacket. This is W. E. B. DuBois's copy with his rubberstamped ownership facsimile signature. The author's rare first book, a novel about a big, lovable Alabama preacher with a strong appetite for extramarital affection. A terrific association.
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  • Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company
  • Date published: 1934
  • Format: Hardcover
First edition. Introduction by Fannie Hurst. Relatively discreet ex-library copy with public library stamp on title page overstamped "Withdrawn, " light evidence of pocket removed, hinges professionally strengthened with cloth, the usual sunning to the sensitive green cloth, still about very good lacking the rare dust jacket. This is W. E. B. DuBois's copy with his rubberstamped ownership facsimile signature. The author's rare first book, a novel about a big, lovable Alabama preacher with a strong appetite for extramarital affection. A terrific association.
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