The Cattle Killing

by John Edgar Wideman

$250 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Boston : Houghton Mifflin , n.d., but 1996 . First edition. An uncorrected proof: comb-bound, oversized photocopied pages without any preliminary or publication information. Inscribed For-- An early version - may it grow.... Set in late 18th century Philadelphia during a yellow fever epidemic which he wrote about in an early story Fever . It connects a Black preacher and a woman recently

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