Stories, Novels, & Essays: The Conjure Woman, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, The House Behind the Cedars, The Marrow of Tradition, Uncollected Stories, Selected Essays.

New York: The Library of America, [2002]. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, slipcase. x, 939pp. Decorative endpapers, sewn-in green silk page marker. Fine/fine. Item #40657
ISBN: 1931082065

Tight and pristine first edition of this 131st volume in the oiutstanding "Library of America" series. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was apparently 7/8ths white, but identified himself as black, and his fiction writings often revolve around racial issues in the post-Civil War south.

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