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First Edition of I Love Myself When I Am Laughing: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader; Inscribed by Alice Walker in the Year of Publication
HURSTON, ZORA NEALE [EDITED BY ALICE WALKER].
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader.
New York: The Feminist Press 1979.
First edition of this classic collection of work, edited by Alice Walker. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “To David Levin Peace Alice Walker 12-79.” Edited by Alice Walker. Introduction by Mary Helen Washington. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 141434
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"The perfect book" (Alice Walker): Rare first edition of Mules and Men; inscribed by Zora Neale Hurston
HURSTON, ZORA NEALE.
Mules and Men.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 1935.
First edition of Hurston’s classic work, “the most engaging, genuine, and skillfully written book in the field of folklore” (Alan Lomax). Octavo, original cloth, with 10 illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Mrs. Scott One of God’s best angels Zora Neale Hurston Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dec. 20, 1936.” Introduction by Franz Boas. In very good condition with a large portion of the front panel of the original dust jacket tipped in opposite the title page, a small original photograph of Zora Neal Hurston laid in and her obituary tipped in which notes that she “died in obscurity and poverty on January 28, 1960.” Additional newspaper clippings related to Hurston tipped in at front and rear. Embossed bookplate. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable. First editions of any of Hurston’s books are rare, presentation copies exceedingly so.
Price: $50,000.00 Item Number: 141573
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First Edition of Zora Neale Hurston's Jonahs Gourd Vine; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
NEALE HURSTON, ZORA.
Jonah’s Gourd Vine.
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.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 141711
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“Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun”: First Edition of Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man on the Mountain; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
HURSTON, ZORA NEALE.
Moses, Man on the Mountain.
New York: J. B. Lippincott Company 1939.
First edition of this classic retelling of Moses’ exodus. 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 fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 141712
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First Edition of Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
HURSTON, ZORA NEALE.
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica.
Philadelphia : J.P. Lippincott Company 1938.
First edition of Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica. 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, 26 illustrations. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 141718
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First editions of the Library of American compilations of the works of both fiction and non-fiction of Zora Neale Hurston
HURSTON, ZORA NEALE.
Hurston: Novels & Stories: Jonah’s Gourd Vine, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Moses Man of the Mountain, Seraph on the Suwanee, and Selected Stories [with] Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings: Mules and Men, Tell My Horse, Dust Tracks on a Road and Selected Articles.
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.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 142448
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First Edition of Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica; Signed by Her
HURSTON, ZORA NEALE.
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica.
Philadelphia : J.P. Lippincott Company 1938.
First edition of Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, 26 illustrations. Boldly signed by Zora Neale Hurston. In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 142477
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First Edition of Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee: A Novel
HURSTON, ZORA NEALE .
Seraph on the Suwanee: A Novel.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1948.
First edition of this humorous novel set in Florida, a place Hurston knew well, having been born in Eatonville, an entirely black Florida town. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the spine.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 143512
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"The perfect book" (Alice Walker): Rare first edition of Mules and Men; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
HURSTON, ZORA NEALE.
Mules and Men.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 1935.
First edition of Hurston’s classic work, “the most engaging, genuine, and skillfully written book in the field of folklore” (Alan Lomax). Octavo, original cloth, with 10 illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. 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 fine condition. Introduction by Franz Boas. Rare and desirable.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 141719